PREREQUISITE: ENGL1012 OR ENGL1012H
A study of Irish literature from Ancient Gaelic times, through the Irish Renaissance and up to contemporary times. Readings, in English, involve a variety of genres: myths, sagas, lyric poems, plays and short stories. Selections will vary but will usually include works by: Synge, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Joyce, O'Casey, Boland, and Heaney.