Irish Studies

Code:

FLUP0600

Acronym:

ESTIRL

Instance: 2004/2005 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	none
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAA	0	Official Study Plan - LEAA	2	2,5	5	-
EFI	2	Official Study Plan - LEFI	3	2,5	5	-
		Official Study Plan - LEFI	3	2,5	5	-
			4
EIA	6	Official Study Plan - LEIA	3	2,5	5	-
			4
		Plano oficial - 1º ao 3º ano	2	2,5	5	-
			3
EPI	19	Official Study Plan - LEPI	2	2,5	5	-
			3
		Official Study Plan - LEPI	2	2,5	5	-
			3
			4
		Plano oficial - 4º ao 5º ano	2	2,5	5	-
			3
		Plano oficial - 1º ao 3º ano	2	2,5	5	-
			3
		Plano oficial a partir de 2002	2	2,5	5	-
			3

Objectives

The aim of this course is to help students become familiar with some aspects of a literature and culture that, in spite of being widely and increasingly an object of attention and study, only exceptionally have been included in the Portuguese academic curricula. The scope of the course will correspond to the curricular areas of 'Culture' and 'Literature' as they have traditionally been taught at the Department of Anglo-American Studies.

Program

Students will be introduced to the study of texts (not exclusively literary) from a variety of sources and areas of interest, so as to highlight the mutual influences of social, economic and political processes in the determination of Irish identity/ies. In this regard, special attention will be given to the representations of decisive, so often traumatic, historical processes. This study will also take into consideration the impact caused by the loss of the ancestral language, and the ensuing sense of a truncated identity. Students will be therefore confronted with the ambivalence which characterises an Irish cultural conformation whose language is English, a language often denounced as a bitter colonial legacy - but that otherwise proves decisive for the global circulation of Irish cultural artefacts.

Main Bibliography

A collection of texts by:
Giraldus Cambrensis, Edmund Spenser, Jonathan Swift, Eileen O’Leary, Brian Merriman, Thomas Moore, W.B.Yeats, James Joyce, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Edna O’Brien, John Montague, Maeve Binchy, and Seamus Heaney.

Complementary Bibliography

ALLEN, Michael and Angela WILCOX (eds.). Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Literature. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1989. BCFLUP
BRADY, Ciaran (ed.). Interpreting Irish History: the debate on historical revisionism 1938-1994. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1994. BCFLUP
BRAMSBACK, Birgit and Martin CROGHAN (eds.). Anglo-Irish and Irish Literature: Aspects of Language and Culture. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature Held at Uppsala University, 4-7 August, 1986, 2 vols. Uppsala: 1988. BCFLUP
BROWN, Terence. Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-1979. London: Fontana, 1981. IEIFLUP
BROWN, Terence. Ireland’s Literature: Selected Essays. Mullingar: The Lilliput Press, 1988. BCFLUP
CARPENTER, Andrew (ed.). Place, Personality and the Irish Writer. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1978. BCFLUP
CONNOLLY, S.J. (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Irish History. Oxford: O.U.P., 1998.
COOGAN, Tim Pat. Disillusioned Decades: Ireland 1966-87. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1987. IEIFLUP
CORCORAN, Neil. After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature. Oxford: O.U.P., 1997.
CRAIG, P. The Oxford Book of Ireland. Oxford: O.U.P., 1999.
DEANE, Seamus (gen.ed.). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing.3 vols. Derry / London: Field Day / Faber, 1991. IEIFLUP
DEANE, Seamus. A Short History of Irish Literature. Notre Dame: Univ.of Notre Dame Press, 1994. BCFLUP
DEANE, Seamus. Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790. Oxford: O.U.P., 1997.
FOSTER, John Wilson. Colonial Consequences: Essays in Irish Litera-ture and Culture. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1991. BCFLUP
FOSTER, R.F. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. London: Allen Lane, 1988. BCFLUP
GARRATT, Robert F. and Audrey S. EYLER (eds.). The Uses of the Past: Essays on Irish Culture. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1988. BCFLUP
GONZALEZ, Alexander G. (ed.). Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. London: Aldwych Press, 1997.
GREEN, Miranda J. Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992. BCFLUP
HOGAN, Robert (ed.). Dictionary of Irish Literature. 2nd edn. London: Greenwood, 1997.
JOHNSTON, Dillon. Irish Poetry After Joyce. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1985. BCFLUP
KENNEALLY, Michael (ed.). Cultural Contexts and Literary Idioms in Contemporary Irish Literature. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1988. BCFLUP
KIBERD, Declan. Inventing Ireland: the literature of the modern nation. London: Cape, 1995. BCFLUP
KIRKLAND, Richard. Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland since 1965: Moments of Danger. London: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996.
LLOYD, David. Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Moment. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1993. BCFLUP
MCCORMACK, W.J. (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
MERCIER, Vivian. Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders. ed. by Eilís Dillon. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994. BCFLUP
MURPHY, Maureen O'Rourke and James MacKillop (eds.). Irish Literature: A Reader. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse U.P., 1987. IEIFLUP
O’BRIEN, Eugene. The Question of Irish Identity in the Writings of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.
O’TOOLE, Fintan. The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities. Dublin: New Island Books, 1998.
WALL, Richard. A Dictionary/Glossary for the Irish Literary Revival. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1995. BCFLUP
WATSON, G.J. Irish Identity and the Irish Literary Revival: Synge, Yeats, Joyce and O'Casey. 2nd edition. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1994. BCFLUP
WELCH, Robert. Changing States: Transformations in Modern Irish Writing. London: Routledge, 1993. BCFLUP

Teaching methods and learning activities

The fact that the literary and cultural traditions studied in this programme are mostly unknown to students at the beginning of the course may require a stronger protagonism on the part of the teacher, in particular during the preliminary stages of the course. Nonetheless, all the activities will be textually grounded, and students will be expected and encouraged actively to discuss the texts to be studied - and to do so both orally and in the form of short essays. Student participation will be duly considered for assessment.

Software

no specific data

Evaluation Type

Eligibility for exams

See preceding item.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final examination will be marked according to the 0-20 scale traditionally applied in higher education in Portugal.

Students opting for continuous assessment will be classified through the application of the following formula (cf 'evaluation components' above):

(a x 2) + (b x 2) + c : 5

Examinations or Special Assignments

See 'evaluation components' and 'final classification' above.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

no specific data

Classification improvement

no specific data

Observations

Language of instruction: depending on the number of students and on the decision consensually reached by teacher + students, the course will be taught in Portuguese or in English.