Irish Culture and Politics - AAA500720

• Title: Irská kultura a politika
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2015
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAALC010A
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Radvan Markus, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 08.9 Others-Humanities; Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature
• Interchangeability : AAALC010A

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
A historical survey of the conflict in Northern Ireland with a particular focus on its literary reflections. The opening part of the
course will be dedicated to the roots of the conflict, to be followed by an extensive analysis of the "Troubles," and
culminating in an assessment of the contemporary situation in the province and the future prospects.

CREDIT REQUIREMENTS consist of
1. Regular attendance and active participation in debates (based on the assigned reading). A maximum of 2 unexplained
absences is allowed.
2. Submitting a final essay (minimal length 3 000 words). The essay topic must be consulted with the instructor in advance.

Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)

Literature

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

McKittrick, D., McVea, D. Making Sense of the Troubles. London: Penguin Books, 2001.

Hennessey, Thomas. A History of Northern Ireland. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999.

Bew, Paul, and Gordon Gillespie. Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles 1968-1999. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1999.

Dickson, David, and Owen Hargie. Researching the Troubles: Social Science Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict. Edinburgh: Mainstrean Publishing, 2004.

Kirkland, Richard. Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland since 1965: Moments of Danger. London: Longman, 1996.

Maguire, Tom. Making Theatre in Northern Ireland: Through and Beyond the Troubles. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006.

Wills, Clair. Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

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Teaching methods

seminář

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Syllabus

1. Introduction

2. Northern Ireland up to the Late 1960s: A Historical Overview

R: Gerald Mac Namara, Thompson in Tír-na-n-Óg

3. Surveying the Province

R: John Montague, The Rough Field

4.-6. The Civil Rights Movement, Bloody Sunday and the "Troubles"

Screening: Bloody Sunday (dir. Paul Greengrass)

R1: Seamus Heaney, "North," "Punishment," "Strange Fruit," Frank McGuinness, Carthaginians

R2: Stewart Parker, Spokesong

7. The Sunningdale Agreement and The Ulster Workers Council Strike

R: Stewart Parker, Pentecost

8. Later Reflections on Sectarian Violence

R: Vincent Woods, At the Black Pig's Dyke

9.-12. The Good Friday Agreement and Causes of Enduring Segregation

R1: The Good Friday Agreement, Sean Farren and Robert F. Mulvihill, Paths to a Settlement in Northern Ireland, Chapter 10

R2: Christina Reid, Tea in a China Cup

R3: Gary Mitchell, In a Little World of Our Own, Christina Reid, Joyriders

R4: Deirdre Madden, One by One in the Darkness

R = reading.

Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)