Imagining Modern Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Culture Studies

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This module provides an integrated interdisciplinary introduction to the ways in which Irish writers, musicians, and filmmakers have participated in the formation of Irish identities from the cultural revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to the present. It considers the extent to which writers and filmmakers, in Irish and in English, and those involved in the revival of Irish music and dance, have been actively involved in imagining and reimagining Ireland and Irishness in the modern period. Issues to be addressed will include Irelands transition from a traditional to a modern society, language, gender, and the connections between cultural production and the imagined nation.