Queering Irish Poetry, 1870 - Present

3 credit hours · Undergraduate

The gendered logics of settler colonialism have profoundly shaped Irish self-identity. Colonization, as a form of gendered oppression, provokes a hypermasculine response in decolonization movements—a dynamic that Irish poets have variously augmented, internalized, or subverted through queer resistance. Irish poetry has both reproduced and challenged normative structures, while resistance itself has taken queer forms. We study Irish poetry, queer theory, and aesthetics.