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The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature

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Guided by great works from Yeats, Joyce, Lady Gregory, and others, discover the dazzling world of the Irish Renaissance-led by an award-winning professor.

Syllabus

  • 01: Roots of Irish Identity: Celts to Monks
  • 02: Gaelic Ireland's Fall: Vikings to Cromwell
  • 03: The Penal Laws and Protestant Ascendancy
  • 04: Ireland at the Turn of the 19th Century
  • 05: Daniel O'Connell and the Great Famine
  • 06: The Celtic Revival
  • 07: Shaw and Wilde: Irish Wit, London Stage
  • 08: W. B. Yeats and the Irish Renaissance
  • 09: Yeats in the 1890s
  • 10: Lady Gregory: The Woman behind the Revival
  • 11: J. M. Synge and the Aran Islands
  • 12: James Joyce: Emerging Genius of Dublin
  • 13: Joyce's Dubliners: Anatomy of a City
  • 14: The Abbey Theatre
  • 15: Lady Gregory as the People's Playwright
  • 16: Early Plays of J. M. Synge
  • 17: Synge's Playboy of the Western World
  • 18: The Dublin Lockout and World War I
  • 19: The 1916 Easter Rising
  • 20: Joyce's Portrait of the Artist
  • 21: Joyce's Portrait as Modernist Narrative
  • 22: Yeats as the Great 20th-Century Poet
  • 23: Michael Collins and the War of Independence
  • 24: The Irish Civil War
  • 25: Ulysses: A Greek Epic in an Irish World
  • 26: Three Episodes from Ulysses
  • 27: Molly Bloom: Joyce's Voice of Love
  • 28: Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy
  • 29: Life and Legacy of Lady Gregory
  • 30: Yeats: The Tower Poems and Beyond
  • 31: Blasket Island Storytellers
  • 32: Finnegans Wake: Joyce's Final Epic
  • 33: Patrick Kavanagh: After the Renaissance
  • 34: Modern Ireland in Paint and Glass
  • 35: De Valera's Ireland: The 1930s
  • 36: Seamus Heaney's Poetry of Remembrance
  • By This Professor

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Marc C. Conner

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