All books and course packs will be available in the Bookmark.
Common reading across all courses:
Killeen, Richard, A Short History of Ireland
Friel, Brian, Translations
Readings for ENG 135:
Cahill, Susan, For The Love of Ireland
Deane, Seamus, Reading in the Dark
Toibin, Colm, Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
MacLaverty, Bernard, Cal
Course pack, including:
- Cahill, Thomas, How the Irish Saved Civilization (excerpt), 1995.
- Heaney, Seamus, Preoccupations/Selected Prose (excerpt), 1980.
- Boland, Eavan, Object Lessons (excerpts), 1995; Against Love Poetry (excerpts), 2001; In a Time of Violence (excerpts), 1994.
- Calamati, Silvia, Women's Stories of Northern Ireland (excerpts), 1988.
- Kiely, Benedict, Drink to the Bird: A Memoir (excerpt), 1991; Proxopera, 1977.
Readings for T/D 183:
Course pack, including:
Grant, David (2000). The playwrights: Embracing possibility. In Causeway 2000 (author's copy).
Plays:
- Brogan, Patricia Burke, Eclipsed (Salmon Drama photocopy)
- Devlin, Anne, Ourselves Alone
- Gregory, Augusta, The Gaol Gate (Irish Drama 1900-1980)
- Heaney, Seamus, The Cure at Troy (Noonday)
- Jones, Marie, A Night in November (New Island Books photocopy)
- McGuinness, Frank, Carthaginians (Contemporary Classics)
- Robinson, Lennox, The Big House (Irish Drama 1900-1980)
- Sutton, Patrick, Iscariot (author's copy)
- Synge, J.M., Playboy of the Western World (Irish Drama, 1900-1980)
- Yeats, WB., On Baile's Strand (Irish Drama, 1900-1980)
Articles from Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre, 2000. Edited by E. Jordan. Dublin: Carysfort Press:
- Eagleton, Terry, Unionism and utopia: Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy, pp. 172-175
- Jordan, Eamonn, From playground to battleground: Metatheatricality in the plays of Frank McGuinness, pp. 194-208
- McMullan, Anna, Gender, authorship and performance in selected plays by contemporary Irish playwrights: Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy, Marie Jones, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue, pp. 34-46
- Shira, Melissa, A cautionary tale: Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats, pp. 257-268
Articles(from Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, 2001. Edited by L. Chambers, et al. Dublin: Carysfort Press:
- Anne Devlin in Conversation with Enrica Cerquoni, pp. 107-123
- Maire Jones in Conversation with Pay Moylan, pp. 213-219
Articles from Politics and Performance in Contemporary Northern Ireland, 1999. Edited by J. Harrington and E. Mitchell. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press:
- Rolston, Bill, Music and politics in Ireland, pp. 29-56.
Articles from Visualizing Ireland, 1993. Edited by A. Dalsimer. Winchester, MA: Faber and Faber:
- O'Neill, Kevin, Looking at the pictures: Art and artfulness in colonial Ireland, pp. 55-70
Readings for EDU 398/390:
Course pack.
Videos shown before leaving for Ireland include ...
The Magdalene Sisters
Bloody Sunday
Michael Collins