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.
The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
Marc C. Conner
