COURSE OUTLINE
Irish Literature: From Yeats to McKeon – Remote Course Outline
Thanks for enrolling in the course. I hope you enjoy it and find it very rewarding. Please see the outline below. If you have any further queries relating to the course, please email info@martinkeaveney.com.
Week 1
Introduction/W.B. Yeats
Week 2
Maeve Brennan/The Springs of Affection
Week 3
Molly Keane/ Good Behaviour
Week 4
Patrick Kavanagh/ Collected Poems
Week 5
Colm Toibin/ The Blackwater Lightship
Week 6
Belinda McKeon/ Tender
Week 7
Naoise Dolan/ Exciting Times
Week 8
Contemporary Irish Poetry
Reading list
Yeats, W.B. The Major Works. Oxford University Press, 1997 (Reissue 2008).
Keane, Molly. Good Behaviour (First Published 1983) Papaerview, 2005.
Brennan, Maeve. The Springs of Affection (First Published Posthumuosly 1997) Papaerview, 2005. (Stories)
Kavanagh, Patrick. Collected Poems. Penguin Books, 2005.
Toibin, Colm. The Blackwater Lightship. (First published Picador, 1999). Papaerview, 2005.
McKeon, Belinda. Tender. Picador, 2015.
Dolan, Naoise. Exciting Times. Weidenfield & Nichol, 2020.
Contemporary Poetry TBA.
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