The Politics of Irish Literature, from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

3 Credits

Irish writing in the English language has re-shaped cultural history through the interventions of great originals such as Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. This course looks at Irish literature through a political lens through the study of texts by a variety of authors and relates these works to historical contexts such as the Union with Britain, the Famine of the 1840s, the cultural revival at the turn of the twentieth century, the Irish revolution, and the Northern Irish crisis.