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Monday, 6:30-09:20 PM\u00a0 A study of Irish culture from ancient times to the Norman Conquest, the second wave of colonization in the Elizabethan period, and the wars of the seventeenth century.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”History 200: The Stories of Ireland: History, Myth, and Folklore ” _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default” open=”on”]<\/p>\n Monday, Wednesday, 1:40-2:55 PM Ireland is a country with an intense historical consciousness, and one that finds its way into the stories of myths and folklore. This class will explore the intersection of history and memory with those stories throughout the centuries, focusing on case studies including St. Patrick, the arch-fiend Oliver Cromwell, the Famine, and the Easter Rising of 1916. But we will also look at fairy lore, ghost stories, and Celtic origin tales, to understand the workings of a popular imagination that has been marked by trauma as well as survival.\u200b<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”History 304: Northern Ireland since 1968″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Tuesday, 6:30-9:20 PM This course will ex\u200bamine the conflict in Northern Ireland from the start of the Civil Rights Movement, through the war, peace negotiations, and power sharing of Catholics and Protestants in the current government.\u00a0 The armed struggle among official state forces and paramilitary groups from both Protestant and Catholic communities will be studied alongside the efforts of the various political parties to negotiate, share power, and recognize the civil rights of all. We will study economic and cultural conditions within Catholic and Protestant communities, and the varieties of politics within them.\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=” English 368W: %22The Music of What Happens%22: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney” _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Monday 6:30-9:20 p.m. In this course we\u00a0will explore the work of Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the most important, popular\u00a0and influential poets of the English language in the last fifty years. In addition to working through the different periods of his powtic career, we will consider Heaney’s prose and his translations in the context of Irish history and culture.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Irish Studies 101: Elementary Irish I” _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Tuesday, 6:30-7:45\u00a0 We will study the basic grammar of Modern Irish by doing oral and written exercises.\u00a0 In addition, we will be listening to radio and television programs and watching at least one Irish language film. This beginning course counts towards the language requirement if you commit to taking three consecutive semesters of Irish language courses. The textbook is Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners by Thomas Ihde.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][\/et_pb_accordion][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Open Sans||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n
Instructor:<\/strong> Patrick McGough
Class Number:<\/strong>\u00a061528
Location:<\/strong> Kiely\u00a0417<\/p>\n
Instructor:<\/strong> Sarah Covington
Class Number:<\/strong>\u00a061522
Location:<\/strong> Powdermaker\u00a0Hall 156<\/p>\n
Instructor:<\/strong> Patrick McGough
Class Number:<\/strong> 5225
Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Kiely\u00a0417<\/p>\n
Instructor:<\/strong> Jeff Cassvan\u00a0 \u00a0
Location:<\/strong> Kiely 173<\/p>\n
Instructor:<\/strong> Thomas Ihde\u00a0
Course Number:<\/strong> 6325
Location:<\/strong> TBA<\/p>\n