Irish cultural history 1891-1940 (Spring term) (HIS 25)

• Day and time: Thursday 15:50 - 16:50
  Weekly
• Length of course: 1 term. Spring (10 Weeks)
• Number of places: 30
• Start date: 15 January 2026
• Description:

  This cultural history course will examine how four great Irish literary figures - Yeats, Joyce, Synge and O'Casey - reacted to the major historical events of their time, as seen in selections from their poetry, novels and plays. This is not a literature course but an attempt to show how history and literature intertwined during this critical period in Irish history which included the Easter Rising, the Anglo-Irish war and the Civil war. Historical videos, music and songs will feature.

• Format: Lecture

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• Tutor: Michael J Murphy
  
• Former Principal lecturer in British and Irish history at Anglia Ruskin University.

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