Dublin: Rebels, Artists, Poets

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Discover Dublin through its writers, artists, rebels, and revolutionaries. This course will examine the history of Ireland’s cultural capital from Georgian Dublin to the present day, examining the factors that have shaped the city’s development as the historical, cultural, and literary nucleus of the nation. Students will explore different ways of knowing and building the city: through literature, art, architecture, and technology. Themes of the course include walking and mapping the city; feast and famine; the Easter Rising; memory and monuments; and the urban novel. This course includes class visits to the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art and Hesburgh Library’s Special Collections. No previous background in Irish Studies, literature, or art history is required.