Schedule of readings

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

Following is a general schedule, subject to change; specific assignments will be given at the end of each class. Items with an asterisk will be available in .pdf form on the blog; please bring downloads or printouts to class.

 

 

8/31  Introduction; Yeats (‘The Stolen Child”; “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”; “Who Goes with Fergus?”)*
9/2 

 

 Yeats (“Down by the Salley Gardens”; “Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea”; “The Sorrow of Love”; “When You Are Old”) and Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon*
9/7 COLLEGE CLOSED
9/9 J.M. Synge, Riders to the Sea*
9/10  COLLEGE ON A MONDAY SCHEDULE: James Joyce, “The Dead” Response #1
9/14 COLLEGE CLOSED
9/16  LAST DROP DAY James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, chapter 1
9/21 Portrait, Ch 2-3
9/23 COLLEGE CLOSED
9/28 Portrait, Ch 4-5
9/30  Yeats, “Easter 1916,” “Leda and the Swan,” “Among Schoolchildren”* Paper #1
10/5 Frank O’Connor, “Guests of the Nation”*
10/7 Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September
10/12 COLLEGE CLOSED
10/14 September
10/19 September
10/21 Flann O’Brien, “Scenes in a Novel”*  
10/26 The Quiet Man
10/28 The Quiet Man Paper #2
11/2 Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
11/4 Godot
11/9 LAST DAY FOR W

Edna O’Brien, “Irish Revel”*
11/11 Bernard MacLaverty, Cal
11/16 Cal
11/18 Seamus Heaney, selections*
11/23 The Crying Game Response #2
11/25 The Crying Game
11/30 Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha ha ha
12/2 Paddy Clarke
12/7 Paddy Clarke
12/9 Anne Enright, tbd*
12/14 Eavan Boland and Rita Ann Higgins, selections* Paper #3