Imagining Ireland

JANUARY
20 - Introduction (Mini-history of Ireland; timelines, maps - to be distributed in class)

[Irish Studies Glossary (ISG) : "Colonization and Plantation,""Mythology," "Anglo-Irish," "Ascendancy, Protestant," "Literary Revival," "Yeats"]

25 - William Allingham, "The Fairies," selected folksongs/ WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, "The Stolen Child,"
"Down by the Salley Gardens," "To Ireland in the Coming Times," "Red Hanrahan's Song," "No Second Troy," "Reconciliation"

[ISG: "Nationalism," "Easter Rising 1916," "Anglo-Irish War 1919-21," "Anglo-Irish Treaty," "Civil War 1922-23," "Michael Collins"]

27 - YEATS, "September 1913," "Easter 1916," "Meditations in a Time of Civil War" (Pt. VI) [Submit COMMENTARIES: "Hanrahans"] [Film clip: Michael Collins]

FEBRUARY
[ISG: "Lady Augusta Gregory," "Big House," "Anglo-Irish War 1919-21," "Civil War 1922-23"]

1 - YEATS, "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen," "Coole Park 1929," "Coole Park and Ballylee 1931" [Recording of Yeats reading]
[SLEDD GROUP 1: Emily Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Ryan, Laura Brockman, Lea Pyne]

[ISG: "Cú Chulainn," "Penal Laws," "Catholic Emancipation," "Church, Irish," "Joyce"]

3 - YEATS, "Under Ben Bulben," "Cuchulain Comforted"; JAMES JOYCE, "The Dead" [Film clip: The Dead]
[Submit COMMENTARIES: "Houlihans"]

8 - JOYCE, "The Dead" (cont.); excerpts from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [Recording of the Christmas Dinner scene from Portrait] [SLEDD GROUP 2: Kelsey Jeffers, Elaine Matthews, Amy St. John]

[ISG: "Constitution of the Irish Free State," "Censorship"]

10 - JOYCE, excerpts from Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake [Reading of Excerpts from Ulysses; Joyce reading from Finnegan's Wake (audiotape)] [Film Clip: Bloom] [Submit COMMENTARIES: "Hanrahans"]

[ISG: "O'Connor," "Diaspora," "Emigration"]

15 - EÁRNÁN O'MALLEY, "On Another Man's Wound"; FRANK O'CONNOR, "Guests of the Nation," "Ghosts"
[Reading of Excerpt from "Guests of the Nation" (audiotape)] [SLEDD GROUP 3: Rebecca Teachey, Mercy Nuesca, Abby Pickett]

[ISG: "Big House," "Bowen"]

17 - ELIZABETH BOWEN, The Last September (excerpt), "The Back Drawing-Room"[Submit COMMENTARIES: "Houlihans"]

22 - BOWEN, "Her Table Spread," "Look at all Those Roses," "Sunday Afternoon" [Film Clips: The Last September; Fools of Fortune] [Submit COMMENTARIES: "Hanrahans"]

24 - BOWEN, "Summer Night," "The Happy Autumn Fields" [SLEDD GROUP 4: Kit Robertson, Aicha Haki,
Megan Maloney, Christina Mallett]

MARCH
[ISG: "The Great Famine 1845-49," "Troubles," "Trevor"]

1 - WILLIAM TREVOR, "The News from Ireland," "Beyond the Pale" [SLEDD GROUP 1: Emily Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Ryan,
Laura Brockman, Lea Pyne]

3 - TREVOR, "Kathleen's Field" [Excerpt from Reading of "Kathleen's Field" (audiotape)] [Submit COMMENTARIES: "Houlihans"]

[ISG: "Williamite Wars 1689-91," "Battle of the Boyne 1691," "Orangeism," "Derry," "Deane"]

10 - DEANE [Submit COMMENTARIES: "Hanrahans"] [Excerpt from Reading of "Maths Class" and "Katie's Story"
in Reading in the Dark (audiocassette)]

[ISG: "Sinn Fein," "IRA," "UVF," "Bloody Sunday"]

22 - DEANE (cont.) [Film Clip: Bloody Sunday]

[ISG: "Belfast," "Internment," "Hunger Strikes," "Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985"]
29 - MARY BECKETT, "A Belfast Woman" [Reading of Excerpt from "A Belfast Woman" (audiotape)]; Belfast Maps (xerox)

31 - [Film Clips: Four Days in July; Belfast Stories: Daughters of the Troubles]
"Whose Language?" (Longman Anthology); Patrick Kavanaugh, "Epic"; SEAMUS HEANEY, "Requiem for the Croppies,"
"Bogland," "Punishment," "Station Island" (Pt. VII) [Heaney Reading: video]

APRIL

5 - HEANEY, "Traditions," "The Ministry of Fear" (Pt. 1), "Casualty," "From the Frontier of Writing," "The Cure at Troy" (Pt. IV)
[SLEDD GROUP 3: Rebecca Teachey, Mercy Nuesca, Abby Pickett]

7 - Heaney, Bogpeople + Heaney reading "The Grauballe Man" - BBC: Northern Ireland Poets; "St. Kevin and the Blackbird," "Postscript" [Submit COMMENTARIES: "Houlihans"]; Cathal O'Searcaigh reading "Caiseal na gCorr" - BBC: Northern Ireland Poets
+ "The Best Way to Learn Irish," a scene from the film version of Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy

[ISG: "Boland," "Women, Social Position of"]

12 - EAVAN BOLAND, Selected poems from In a Time of Violence (in the order in which she reads them on the video) :
"That the Science of Cartography is Limited," "Lava Cameo," "Writing in a Time of Violence," "Pomegranate" ("The Emigrant Irish" - xerox), "Anna Liffey" [Boland video]

14 - BOLAND, More on the previous poems + xeroxes of "Mise Eire," "The Muse Mother," "The Lost Land," How We Made
a NewArt on Old Ground," "Irish Poetry" [SLEDD GROUP 4: Kit Robertson, Aicha Haki, Megan Maloney, Christina Mallett]

[ISG: "McGahern," "Modernisation"]
19 - JOHN McGAHERN, "Korea," "The Gold Watch," [Reading of "Korea" (audiotape)]
[COMMENTARIES: "Hanrahans"]

26 - RODDY DOYLE, "The Joke"
*Guest performances by Laura Pharis (Professor, Studio Art) and Joe Malloy (Associate Professor, Library)

28 - COLM TOIBIN, "A Song"; JOSEPH O'CONNOR, from "Cowboys and Indians"; EMMA DONOGHUE, "Going Back "

3 - DECLAN KIBERD, "Strangers in Their Own Land"; ÉILÍS Ní DHUIBHNE, "Irish Irish and Only Irish...," "The Girls Discuss the North of Ireland Question" from The Dancers Dancing; JOHN MONTAGUE, "Demolition Ireland," "Last of the House."
Course evaluations. PORTFOLIOS DUE IN CLASS.

English 217 - Imagining Ireland - Spring 2005