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Jan. 23 Introduction Jan. 25 Lecture on Irish history to the 18th c. Jan.30 Anonymous Love Lyrics of the 15th and 16th c.; Dreams of
Love & Freedom (18th c. Political Aislings)
[packet] Feb. 1-6 Jonathan Swift: "A Proposal for the Universal Use of
Irish Manufacture"(1720); "A Letter to the Whole People of
Ireland" [Drapier's Letter IV] (1724); "A Modest
Proposal" (1729); from "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift"
(1731); Swift's Will (1745); Yeats, "Swift's Epitaph" (1931)
[packet] Feb. 8 Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent; Robert Emmet, from
Speeches from the Dock ;Joyce, conclusion to Chapter 11,
"Sirens" from Ulysses [packet] Feb.13-15 The Famine, "Documents" [packet]; Greenblatt,
"The Potato in the Materialist Imagination"
[packet] Feb. 19 ESSAY due at 5:00 pm Feb. 20 Douglas Hyde, "The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland"
[packet]; Cairns and Richards, "An Essentially
Feminine Race" [packet] Feb. 21-March 1 Yeats, Selected Poems & Four Plays March 6-8 Synge, The Aran Islands; "Playboy of the Western World"
in Harrington, Modern Irish Drama; Fintan O'Toole, "Going
West: The Country Versus the City in Irish Writing"
[packet] March 9-19 SPRING BREAK March 20 Finish Yeats & Synge March 22-29 Joyce The Dead; Chapter 12, "Cyclops" from
Ulysses [packet] April 2 ESSAY due at 5:00 pm April 3-10 O'Brien, from The Poor Mouth; The Third
Policeman April 12 Beckett, Endgame; Deane "Silence and Eloquence"
[packet] April 17-19 Behan, Borstal Boy April 24-May 1 Contemporary poetry of Heaney, Mahon, et.al. in Crotty,
Modern Irish Poetry; Ni Dhomhnaill, "Why I Choose to
Write in Irish" [packet] May 3 Friel, "Translations" in Harrington, Modern Irish
Drama;Kinsella, "The Divided Mind": [packet] May 4 ESSAY due at 5:00 pm May 12 FINAL EXAM for SENIORS due by 5:00 pm May 18 FINAL EXAM for all other classes due by 5:00 pm
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