Module Details

Module Code: BUSS H3705
Module Title: Contemporary Irish Literature
Title: Contemporary Irish Literature
Module Level:: 7
Credits:: 5
Module Coordinator: Myles Kelly
Module Author:: Caroline French
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Module Description: This module will explore contemporary reinventions of Ireland and ‘Irishness’ through a range of plays, short stories and poetry. The focus will be on the retrospective negotiations of Irish history and identity that characterise Irish literature of the 1990s and the 2000s and the treatment of contemporary Ireland in more recent Irish literature The course will explore contemporary reworking’s of mid-late twentieth century Ireland and the emergence of Ireland as a postcolonial nation..
 
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Learning Outcome Description
LO1 Identify Irish playwrights and poets and their related historical and cultural contexts
LO2 Review themes, traits and tropes emerging in Irish writing
LO3 Understand how more recent Irish writing has been influenced by, and responds to, the writing of canonical figures such as Joyce and Yeats.
LO4 Compare and contrast the central themes and subjects important to writers from the North and the South of Ireland, identifying key regional differences
Dependencies
Module Recommendations

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is recommended before enrolment in this module.
No recommendations listed
Co-requisite Modules
No Co-requisite modules listed
Additional Requisite Information
No Co Requisites listed
 
Indicative Content
Modernism/Postmodernism
James Joyce/ Samuel Beckett Text: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Film: The Dead Film: Ulysses
Buried Violence in Northern Irish Poetry:
Seamus Heaney Michael Longley Derek Mahon
Rewriting the Nation and the Rise and Fall of ‘Celtic Tiger’ Ireland
Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy and Short Stories by Roddy Doyle, Kevin Barry, and Claire Keegan, Donal Ryan
Irish Women’s Writing in the Twenty-First Century:
Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Anne Enright’s The Gathering Short Stories of Maeve Brennan Selected Work by Irish Women Poets
Literary Adaptation from Text to Film
Film: Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett Film: The Commitments: Roddy Doyle Film: The Butcher Boy: Pat McCabe Film: Dancing at Lughnasa
Module Content & Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Continuous Assessment100.00%

Assessments

Full Time

Continuous Assessment
Assessment Type Portfolio % of Total Mark 100
Timing Sem 1 End Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4
Non-marked No
Assessment Description
n/a
No Project
No Practical
No End of Module Formal Examination
Reassessment Requirement
Repeat examination
Reassessment of this module will consist of a repeat examination. It is possible that there will also be a requirement to be reassessed in a coursework element.
Reassessment Description
Marks for all projects/briefs are collated at the end of each semester. If a student fails to complete a project, re-assessment can take place if the student obtains the agreement of the tutor to submit completed work at the end of the semester. If part of a project involved group working then it is not possible to require students to submit such work and alternative assignments may have to be issued

SETU Carlow Campus reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full Time
Workload Type Workload Category Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact No Description 12 Weeks per Stage 3.00 36
Independent Learning Non Contact No Description 15 Weeks per Stage 5.93 89
Total Weekly Contact Hours 3.00
Workload: Part Time
Workload Type Workload Category Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact Contemporary Irish Literature and Film 12 Weeks per Stage 1.50 18
Independent Learning Non Contact No Description 15 Weeks per Stage 2.97 44.5
Total Weekly Contact Hours 1.50
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • Brown, Terence. (2004), Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2002, London: Harper Perennial.
  • Campbell, Matthew. (2003), The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Collins Lucy. (2015), Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement, Liverpool University Press.
  • Murray, Christopher. (1997), Twentieth Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation, Manchester University Press.
  • Roche, Anthony. (1994), Contemporary Irish Drama, Gill & Macmillan, 1994).
  • Corcoran, Neil. (1997), After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Kiberd, D. (2018), After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present, Harvard University press.
This module does not have any article/paper resources
Other Resources
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