Sessions will be set aside for close viewing of films involving full class participation. Video materials will be used to stimulate interest and vary the teaching methods. On line discussion forum and end-of-term portfolio of materials (task sheets and essay)
Module Aim:
This module will explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness’ through a range of plays, short stories and poetry. The focus will be on the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the 2000s and the treatment of contemporary Ireland in more recent Irish literature The course will explore contemporary reworking’s of mid-late twentieth century Ireland and the emergence of Ireland as a postcolonial nation..
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner should be able to:
LO1
Identify Irish playwrights and poets and their related historical and cultural contexts
LO2
Review themes, traits and tropes emerging in Irish writing
LO3
Understand how more recent Irish writing has been influenced by, and responds to, the writing of canonical figures such as Joyce and Yeats.
LO4
Compare and contrast the central themes and subjects important to writers from the North and the South of Ireland, identifying key regional differences
Pre-requisite learning
Module Recommendations
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is recommended before enrolment in this module.
No recommendations listed
Incompatible Modules
These are modules which have learning outcomes that are too similar to the learning outcomes of this module.
No incompatible modules listed
Co-requisite Modules
No Co-requisite modules listed
Requirements
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is mandatory before enrolment in this module is allowed.
No requirements listed
Module Content & Assessment
Indicative Content
Modernism/Postmodernism
James Joyce/ Samuel Beckett
Text: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Film: The Dead
Film: Ulysses
Buried Violence in Northern Irish Poetry:
Seamus Heaney
Michael Longley
Derek Mahon
Rewriting the Nation and the Rise and Fall of ‘Celtic Tiger’ Ireland
Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy and Short Stories by Roddy Doyle, Kevin Barry, and Claire Keegan, Donal Ryan
Irish Women’s Writing in the Twenty-First Century:
Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls
Anne Enright’s The Gathering
Short Stories of Maeve Brennan
Selected Work by Irish Women Poets
Literary Adaptation from Text to Film
Film: Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett
Film: The Commitments: Roddy Doyle
Film: The Butcher Boy: Pat McCabe
Film: Dancing at Lughnasa
Assessment Breakdown
%
Continuous Assessment
100.00%
Continuous Assessment
Assessment Type
Assessment Description
Outcome addressed
% of total
Assessment Date
Portfolio
n/a
1,2,3,4
100.00
Sem 1 End
No Project
No Practical
No End of Module Formal Examination
SETU Carlow Campus reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment