Lecturer: Professor Marc C. Conner, Washington and Lee University.
Contents:
disc 6. Seamus Heaney's poetry of remembrance. Gaelic Ireland's fall, Vikings to Cromwell ; The penal laws and Protestant ascendancy ; Ireland at the turn of the 19th century ; Daniel O'Connell and the great famine ; The Celtic revival -- disc 2. Shaw and Wilde, Irish wit, London stage ; W.B. Yeats and the Irish Renaissance ; Yeats in the 1890s ; Lady Gregory, the woman behind the revival ; J.M. Synge and the Aran Islands ; James Joyce, emerging genius of Dublin -- disc 3. Joyce's Dubliners, anatomy of a city ; The Abbey Theatre ; Lady Gregory as the people's playwright ; Early plays of J.M. Synge ; Synge's Playboy of the Western world ; The Dublin lockout and World War I -- disc 4. The 1916 Easter rising ; Joyce's Portrait of the artist ; Joyce's Portrait as modernist narrative ; Yeats as the great 20th-century poet ; Michael Collins and the War of Independence ; The Irish Civil War -- disc 5. Ulysses, a Greek epic in an Irish world ; Three episodes from Ulysses ; Molly Bloom, Joyce's voice of love ; Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy ; Life and legacy of Lady Gregory ; Yeats, the Tower Poems and beyond -- disc 6. Blasket Island storytellers ; Finnegans Wake, Joyce's final epic ; Patrick Kavanagh, after the Renaissance ; Modern Ireland in paint and glass ; De Valera's Ireland, the 1930s ; Seamus Heaney's poetry of remembrance.
Summary:
Discover the dazzling arts of the Irish Renaissance and the violent struggles of the Irish fight for independence, using great literary works as your guide.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.