MA English (Irish Writing: Theories and Traditions)
MA in English - Irish Writing: Theories and Traditions
Period of Study: One Year
Course Components: Subject Unit: Taught Course in Irish Writing & Film. October to March, two 2-hours seminars per week, plus related work. Research Skills Unit: October to February, one 2-hour seminar per week, plus related work. Dissertation: Period of research: February to September (submission of dissertation in October)
Co-ordinator: Dr Eibhear Walshe (021) 4902584 e.walshe@ucc.ie
Subject Unit
This MA develops an integrated analysis of Irish literature and film. Students explore the principal characteristics and conceptions of Irish culture as this is formed, represented and contested in literature and film up to the 2000s. Topic areas may include:
- Writing and the project of the nation
- Theories of Irish literature
- Colonial and post-colonial formations: Edgeworth, Lawless, Corkery
- Genre, Gothic and sensation in C19th Ireland: Maturin, Griffin, Le Fanu
- Inventing and reinventing Ireland: Yeats, Synge and the Literary Revival
- Ireland amd modernism: Joyce, Beckett, Bowen, Flann O'Brien
- Writing the Munster region: O'Connor, O'Faolain, Ní Dhomhnaill
- Irish avant-garde: 1930s-1990s
- Irish lesbian and gay writing: Wilde, Kate O'Brien, Tóibín
- Resisting Mother Ireland: contemporary women's writing
- "The Horses of Meaning": Irish poetry 1960s-2000s
- Irish cinema in post-modernity: film, identities and social change
Teaching Staff: Professor Patricia Coughlan, Dr Alex Davis, Dr Heather Laird, Dr Barry Monahan, Dr Christina Morin, Dr Eibhear Walshe.
Research Skills Unit - Information Literacy, Technology and Research
By means of a team-teaching technique plus self-paced interactive work, this component will familiarise students with the MLA style, equip them with fundamental skills in computing and related IT skills, enable them to convey their thoughts and ideas verbally in an academic environment, and research, access and evaluate library sources.
Dissertation
A dissertation equivalent to 15,000-17,000 words on an approved topic, written under the direction of an appropriate member of staff.
