timartin@camden.rutgers.edu), English
This course will introduce students to the rich variety of Irish
literature of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries: first (in
Camden), with readings in fiction, drama, and poetry of the period; then (in Ireland), with explorations of the historical and the cultural
traditions out of which this literature grew. We will study works by Joyce, Yeats, O'Casey, Synge, Liam O'Flaherty, and Seamus Heaney, among others, and we will visit such sites as the ancient burial grounds at Carrowmore and the medieval monastery at Clonmacnoise, as well as many cultural sites in and around Dublin: the James Joyce Centre, Trinity College, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Kilmainham Gaol. The tour will be divided between the East and the West of Ireland: between cosmopolitan Dublin, with its theatres and museums, and romantic Galway, including an overnight visit to Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands. Two days in Sligo, Yeats's summer haunt in his youthful days, will give students a sense of life in the Irish towns. 8-9 Monday afternoons, from 4:00-5:50.
Cost and payment schedule TBA
