Irish Memoir & Autobiography

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This class has four basic objectives, to explore different ways in which to read texts, to explore the different ways in which memoir and autobiography can be read, though the lives of the authors to introduce modern Irish social and political history, and more broadly, to introduce students to different human experience. Key texts may include Frank McCourt's Anglea's Ashes, Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy, Maurice O'Sullivan's Twenty Years Agrowing. In addition we may study extracts from other books, by writers such as William Carlton, Elizabeth Bowen and Robert Harbinson.