Reading Schedule

 

Reading Schedule

Date	Reading	Key Research Terms
Tuesday May 29th	Angela Bourke “Reading  a Woman’s Death:  Colonial Text and Oral Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland”
Wednesday May 30th	Lady Wilde excerpts from “Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland”	Lady “Speranza” Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Jeremiah Curtin, Thomas Crofton Croker, Young Ireland and The Nation, Irish wakes, The Celts, Tuatha Dé Danann, Druids, “Raths” or ring forts
Thursday May 31st	Sheridan Le Fanu “The White Cat of Drumgunniol” and “The Child That Went With the Fairies.”  Also read up to Chapter IX of “Carmilla”	Young Ireland, The Ascendancy, The Irish Famine (aka “The Great Hunger”), Irish Literary Gothic, Irish wakes, The Celts, Tuatha Dé Danann, Druids, “Raths” or ring forts
Friday June 1st	Finish “Carmilla”	Young Ireland, The Ascendancy, The Irish Famine, (aka “The Great Hunger”), Irish Literary Gothic, Irish wakes, The Celts, Tuatha Dé Danann, Druids, “Raths” or ring forts
Monday June 4th	W. B. Yeats The Celtic Twilight and selected poems	The Celtic Revival, Irish Literary Revival, The Gaelic Athletic Association, The Abbey Theatre, Maud Gonne, Easter Rising, Lady Gregory, Automatic Writing, Queen Maeve, Cuchulain
Tuesday June 5th	J. M. Synge The Playboy of the Western World	The Celtic Revival, Irish Literary Revival, The Gaelic Athletic Association, The Abbey Theatre, “The Playboy Riots”
Wednesday June 6th	James Joyce “Araby” and “The Dead	Modernism, Epiphany, Stream of Consciousness Writing
Thursday June 7th	Máirtín Ó Cadhain short stories from The Road to Brightcity	Partition of Ireland, Irish Civil War, the IRA, James Connolly and Irish Marxism
Friday June 8th	Seamus Heaney “Station Island”	St. Patrick’s Purgatory, The Troubles
Monday June 11th	Éilís Ní Dhuibhne short stories, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill selected poems	Feminism, The Magdalene Laundries, Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal
Tuesday June 12th	Conor McPherson The Weir	The Celtic Tiger
Wednesday June 13th	Martin McDonagh In Bruges (viewed in class)	Ireland and the European Union
Thursday June 14th	Peer-Review Literary Analysis Papers
Friday June 15th	Final Literary Analysis and Reflective Essay due by 12:00 pm at my office in Melvill 411