Irish Literature since 1850
FALL 2019

Syllabus

Texts in Chronological Reading Order

Texts Studied before Midterm Exam (rescheduled for Oct. 14th, 2019)

• Episodes 1 and 4 from James Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922)
• James Joyce’s short story “The Dead” (written 1907; published 1914)
• Paul Muldoon’s poems “Anseo” (1980), “Why Brownlee Left” (1980), and “Turkey Buzzards” (2006)
• Charles Joseph Kickham’s novel Knocknagow; or The Homes of Tipperary (1873)

CLICK HERE FOR PDF WITH ALL NOTES INFORMING MIDTERM EXAM

Texts Studied for Final Exam (Dec. 11th, 2019)

• Mary Lavin’s short story “In The Middle of the Fields” (1961)
• William Butler Yeats’s poem “Easter, 1916” (dated Dec. 25th, 1916) • Three other poems in addition: Yeats’s “The Rose Tree” (written 1917); Yeats’s “Sixteen Dead Men” (written 1916 or 1917); Dora Sigerson Shorter’s “Sixteen Dead Men” (1916)
• Georgia Southern Priority: Inclusion ¶ International Perspective: W. Somerset Maugham’s short story “P&O” (1926)
• Three 1991 poems by Paul Durcan: “The Separation of the Apostles”’ “Man with Two Daughters”; “Grief”
• Georgia Southern Priority: Inclusion ¶ Colm Tóibín’s short story “The Color of Shadows” (2009)
• Wybert Reeve’s stage drama Pike O’Callaghan; or, The Irish Patriot (1870)
• Maeve Brennan’s Herbert’s Retreat series short story “The Servants’ Dance” (1954)
• Colin Barrett’s short story “Whoever Is There, Come on Through” (2018)

Syllabus Is Subject to Change • The Most Likely Reason for a Change during Fall Semester is a Campus Closure due to Hurricane Season

Week One

Aug. 19th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Live Class Session • Introduction to the Course • Overview of: (1) What We Study; (2) Student Learning Outcomes; (3) Testing and Grading; (4) Expectations, Rules, and Procedures

HOUSEKEEPING • Aug. 19th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ University-Mandated Attendance Verification: Attend Class or Be Dropped from the Course

Aug. 21st, 2019 • We. ¶ Live Class Session • Ireland, 1850-1915: Great Hunger; Land War; Cultural Revival • Lecture from Instructor

HOUSEKEEPING • Aug. 22nd, 2019 • Th. ¶ Drop/Add Period Ends

Aug. 23rd, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Live Class Session • Ireland, 1916-1922: Rising; Wars (Great, Black & Tan, and Civil); Partition • Lecture from Instructor

Week Two

Aug. 26th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Live Class Session • James Joyce, Ulysses (novel; 1922) • Episode 1 (“Telemachus”) • Read “Telemachus” before Class

Aug. 28th, 2019 • We. ¶ Live Class Session • James Joyce, Ulysses (novel; 1922) • Episode 4 (“Calypso”) • Read “Calypso” before Class

Online Class Sessions Begin on Fr., Aug. 30th, 2019

Aug. 30th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Online (No Live Class Session) • James Joyce, “The Dead” (short story; written 1907; published 1914) • Read Full Text of “The Dead”

Week Three (Fully Online)

Sep. 2nd, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Labor Day: Federal Holiday • University Closed

Sep. 4th, 2019 • We. ¶ Online (No Live Class Session) • James Joyce, “The Dead” (short story; written 1907; published 1914) • Listen to Podcasts 1-3 about “The Dead” while answering (via our course Folio page) 20 multiple-choice questions based on the Podcasts (i.e. open-book format quiz) • Cut-off for Folio-based quiz: 11:00 pm on Th., Sep. 12th, 2019

Sep. 6th, 2019 • Fr ¶ Online (No Live Class Session) • James Joyce, “The Dead” (short story; written 1907; published 1914) • Study First Set of Lecture Notes about “The Dead” while answering (via our course Folio page) 30 multiple-choice questions based on the Notes (i.e. open-book format quiz) • Cut-off for Folio-based quiz: 11:00 pm on Th., Sep. 12th, 2019

Week Four

Sep. 9th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Online (No Live Class Session) • James Joyce, “The Dead” (short story; written 1907; published 1914) • Listen to Podcasts 4-6 about “The Dead” while answering (via our course Folio page) 20 multiple-choice questions based on the Podcasts (i.e. open-book format quiz) • Cut-off for Folio-based quiz: 11:00 pm on Sa., Sep. 14th, 2019

Live Class Sessions Recommence on We., Sep. 11th, 2019

Sep. 11th, 2019 • We. ¶ Live Class Session • James Joyce, “The Dead” (short story; written 1907; published 1914) • Study Second Set of Lecture Notes about “The Dead” while answering (via our course Folio page) 30 multiple-choice questions based on the Notes (i.e. open-book format quiz) • Cut-off for Folio-based quiz: 11:00 pm on Sa., Sep. 14th, 2019

Sep. 13th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Live Class Session • Paul Muldoon, Selected Poems • Watch before Class: Video of Paul Muldoon reading some of his poems at Lancaster University, UK, in 2015 • Start the video at the 2:45 mark and watch until the end • Read before Class: Muldoon’s “Anseo” (1980); “Why Brownlee Left” (1980); “Turkey Buzzards” (2006) • Important: Print these three poems and bring them as paper hardcopies to our class session

Week Five • Knocknagow (1/3)

First of Three Weeks Devoted to Kickham’s Novel Knocknagow

Sep. 16th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Live Class Session • Charles Joseph Kickham, Knocknagow; or, The Homes of Tipperary (novel; 1873) • Read before Class: from Introduction to the end of Chapter 7 (“Norah Lahy — The Old Linnet’s Song”)

Sep. 18th, 2019 • We. ¶ Live Class Session • Charles Joseph Kickham, Knocknagow; or, The Homes of Tipperary (novel; 1873) • Read before Class: from Chapter 8 (Honor Lahy’s Good Luck”) to the end of Chapter 14 (“Mount Tempe and Its Master”)

Sep. 20th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Live Class Session • Charles Joseph Kickham, Knocknagow; or, The Homes of Tipperary (novel; 1873) • Read before Class: from Chapter 15 (“A Day’s Shooting Lost”) to the end of Chapter 21 (“Five Shillings’ Worth of Dance”)

Week Six • Knocknagow (2/3)

Second of Three Weeks Devoted to Kickham’s Novel Knocknagow

Sep. 23rd, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Live Class Session • Charles Joseph Kickham, Knocknagow; or, The Homes of Tipperary (novel; 1873) • Read before Class: from Chapter 22 (“The Blue Body-Coat with Gilt Buttons — Absence of Mind — ‘Auld Lang Syne’”) to the end of Chapter 28 (“Barney Wins a Bet, and Loses Much Precious Time”)

Sep. 25th, 2019 • We. ¶ Live Class Session • Charles Joseph Kickham, Knocknagow; or, The Homes of Tipperary (novel; 1873) • Read before Class: from Chapter 29 (“The Hauling Home — ‘Is Norah Lahy Strong?’) to the end of Chapter 36 (“Home to Knocknagow — A Tenant at Will”)

Sep. 27th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Live Class Session • Charles Joseph Kickham, Knocknagow; or, The Homes of Tipperary (novel; 1873) • Read before Class: from Chapter 37 (“Discontent and Resignation”) to the end of Chapter 44 (“Hugh Kearney Thinks He Will Get His Fishing-Rod Repaired”)

Week Seven • Knocknagow (3/3)

Third of Three Weeks Devoted to Kickham’s Novel Knocknagow

Sep. 30th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Live Class Session • Charles Joseph Kickham, Knocknagow; or, The Homes of Tipperary (novel; 1873) • Read before Class: from Chapter 45 (“Tim Cuddehy Bids His Old Sweetheart Good-Bye”) to the end of Chapter 52 (“The Bull-Bait The Carrick-Man and His Dog ‘Trueboy’ — Lory Punishes Beresford Pender, and Rides Home behind Mr. Bob Lloyd, on the Grey Hunter — Mrs. Lloyd Involuntarily Sits Down”)

Oct. 2nd, 2019 • We. ¶ Live Class Session • Charles Joseph Kickham, Knocknagow; or, The Homes of Tipperary (novel; 1873) • Read before Class: from Chapter 53 (“The Hurling in the Kiln Field — Captain French Throws the Sledge against Mat the Thrasher — Barney in Trouble — Father M’Mahon’s ‘Proud Walk’”) to the end of Chapter 59 (“Another Eventful Day ‘Magnificent Tipperary’”)

Oct. 4th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Live Class Session • Charles Joseph Kickham, Knocknagow; or, The Homes of Tipperary (novel; 1873) • Read before Class: from Chapter 60 (“Burglary and Robbery — Mat Donovan a Prisoner — Barney Disappears — Mr. Somerfield and Attorney Hanly Apply for Leases, and Old Isaac Dreads the Consequences”) to the end of Chapter 67 (“Good-Bye — The Old Room — Mrs. Heffernan’s Troubles — ‘Magnificent Tipperary’ — A Gleam of Sunshine — But Knocknagow Is Gone”)

Week Eight

Midterm Exam on Monday of Week Eight (i.e. Oct. 7th, 2019)

Oct. 7th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Midterm Exam for the Course • Question: What’s Covered? Answer: All Material to Date

Oct. 9th, 2019 • We. ¶ Live Class Session • Mary Lavin, “In the Middle of the Fields” (short story; 1961) • Read Full Story before Class

Oct. 11th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Live Class Session • Mary Lavin, “In the Middle of the Fields” (short story; 1961) • Listen before Class: New Yorker Fiction Podcast from June 1st, 2017, in which the Irish writer Colm Tóibín reads Lavin’s tale and also discusses it with host Deborah Treisman, the New Yorker’s fiction editor

Week Nine

Oct. 14th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ William Butler Yeats, “Easter, 1916” (poem; Sep. 25th, 1916) • Watch before Class: Irish actor Liam Neeson’s Mar. 2016 reading of “Easter, 1916” (produced by Ireland’s public broadcaster, RTÉ)

HOUSEKEEPING • Oct. 14th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Last Day to Drop a Fall 2019 Semester Course with No Academic Penalty

Oct. 16th, 2019 • We. ¶ William Butler Yeats, “Easter, 1916” • Watch before Class: a multi-voice presentation of the Proclamation (versus “declaration”) of the Irish Republic, which, as rebel commander, Patrick Pearse read from the rebels’ field headquarters: the General Post Office building on Sackville (now O’Connell) Street in central Dublin (video produced by Ireland’s public broadcaster, RTÉ) ••• Read before Class: Text of the Poem, Plus Explanation of How Yeats Wrote It (as Told by Roy F. Foster in His Authorized Biography of Yeats)

Oct. 18th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ William Butler Yeats, “Easter, 1916” • Study before Class: Set of Lecture Notes about “Easter, 1916”

Week Ten

Oct. 21st, 2019 • Mo. ¶ William Butler Yeats, “Eater, 1916” • Watch before Class: an Irish Government-produced video from 2016; entitled I Am Ireland (Mise Éire), it purpose was to celebrate what the Republic of Ireland sounded and looked like one hundred years after the Easter 1916 Rising ••• Attempt before Class or, at least, before 11:00 pm on Fr., Nov. 25, 2019 (cut-off time): Use course Folio page to answer (primarily) multiple-choice questions based on the Lecture Notes about “Easter, 1916” (i.e. open-book format learning quiz) ••• Read before Class: Yeats’s poem “The Rose Tree” (written on Apr. 7th, 1917; first published in The Dial in Nov. 1920) ••• Read before Class: Yeats’ poem “Sixteen Dead Men” (written in 1916 or 1917; first published in The Dial in Nov. 1920) ••• Read before Class: Dora Sigerson Shorter’s poem “Sixteen Dead Men” (written — and first published privately — in 1916); also read University of Dublin (Trinity College) webpage about the poet

Resource: Powerpoint presentation about Yeats’s “Easter, 1916”: Part One; and Part Two

Oct. 23rd, 2019 • We. ¶ Georgia Southern Priority: Inclusion ¶ International Perspective: W. Somerset Maugham, “P&O” (short story; 1926) • Read the full text of Maugham’s “P&O” before Class

Oct. 25th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Georgia Southern Priority: Inclusion ¶ International Perspective: W. Somerset Maugham, “P&O” (short story; 1926)

HOUSEKEEPING • Oct. 25th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Homecoming Weekend Begins at 2:00 pm; Our Class Meets as Usual

Week Eleven

Oct. 28th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Georgia Southern Priority: Inclusion ¶ International Perspective: W. Somerset Maugham, “P&O” (short story; 1926) • Listen before Class: podcast from RTÉ (Ireland’s public broadcaster) entitled Roger Casement’s “Apocalypse Now”: Africa and 1916 while completing (via our course Folio page) 20 multiple-choice questions based on the podcast (.e. open-book format quiz) • Cut-off for Folio-based quiz: 11:00 pm on Mo., Nov. 4th, 2019

Oct. 30th, 2019 • We. ¶ Georgia Southern Priority: Inclusion ¶ International Perspective: W. Somerset Maugham, “P&O” (short story; 1926) • Study a Set of Lecture Notes about Maugham’s “P&O”

Nov. 1st, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Paul Durcan, Poems about aspects of masculinity from the collection Crazy About Women (1991) • Click to download a PDF containing the three assigned poems • Read before Class: Durcan’s “The Separation of the Apostles” (associated image from 1494 [unknown artist/s]); “Man with Two Daughters” (associated image by Giambattista Moroni [d. 1579]); “Grief” (associated image from 1951 by Jack Butler Yeats)

Week Twelve

Nov. 4th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Georgia Southern Priority: Inclusion ¶ Colm Tóibín, “The Color of Shadows” (short story; 2009) • Read before Class: full text of “The Color of Shadows” while answering a set of reading-comprehension questions due as a printed hardcopy in today’s class

Nov. 6th, 2019 • We. ¶ No Class Session • Use the “free” time to complete the précis or abstract of your Researched Term Paper about an aspect of Kickham’s Knocknagow • The précis is due (as a printed hardcopy) in class on Fr., Nov. 8th, 2019

Nov. 8th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Georgia Southern Priority: Inclusion ¶ Colm Tóibín, “The Color of Shadows” (short story; 2009) • Read before Class: Set of Lecture Notes about “The Color of Shadows”

Week Thirteen

Reduced Workload This Week to Facilitate Students’ Production of Researched Term Papers about Kickham’s Knocknagow

Nov. 11th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ International Perspective: Wybert Reeve’s Pike O’Callaghan; or, The Irish Patriot (two-act stage play; 1870) • Read Act I before Class

Nov. 13th, 2019. • We. ¶ International Perspective: Wybert Reeve’s Pike O’Callaghan; or, The Irish Patriot (two-act stage play; 1870) • Read Act II before Class

Nov. 15th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ International Perspective: Wybert Reeve’s Pike O’Callaghan; or, The Irish Patriot (two-act stage play; 1870) • Performing Pike in Late-Nineteenth-Century Savannah • Lecture from Instructor

Week Fourteen

Nov. 18th, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Maeve Brennan’s “The Servants’ Dance” (short story; 1954) • Read before Class: Full text of “The Servants’ Dance”

Nov. 20th, 2019 • We. ¶ Maeve Brennan’s “The Servants’ Dance” (short story; 1954) • Study before Class: Set of Lecture Notes about “The Servants’ Dance”

Nov. 22nd, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Maeve Brennan’s “The Servants’ Dance” (short story; 1954) • Using our course Folio page, complete before Class: series of multiple-choice questions (open-book-quiz format) covering the Text of and the Lecture Notes about “The Servants’ Dance” • Cut-off for Folio-based quiz: 10:00 am on Fr., Nov. 22nd, 2019

Thanksgiving Break

No Class from Mo., Nov. 25th, 2019, to Fr., Nov. 29th, 2019

Week Fifteen

Dec. 2nd, 2019 • Mo. ¶ Colin Barrett’s “Whoever Is There, Come on Through” (short story; 2018) • Read “Whoever Is There” before Class

Dec. 4th, 2019 • We. ¶ Colin Barrett’s “Whoever Is There, Come on Through” (short story; 2018) • How “Whoever Is There” Reflects the Other Ireland • Lecture from Instructor

Dec. 6th, 2019 • Fr. ¶ Preparation for Final Exam

Final Exam Week

Dec. 11th, 2019 • We ¶ Final Exam for the Course • Question: What’s Covered? Answer: All Material since the Midterm Exam • Please Note the Times: from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon