ETW - Irish Lit Celtic Revival

Catalog description

This course explores 20th-century Irish writers publishing in the English from the Celtic Revival through the formation of the Irish Free State and the civil war, “The Troubles“ of the 1960s-80s, to the present day. Beginning with background in Yeats and Joyce, the course will survey writers in all three major genres including dramatists J.M. Synge, Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Marina Carr, poets Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Paula Meehan; and fiction writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Sean Ó’Faoláin, Edna O’Brien, Patrick McCabe, and Roddy Doyle.