IRISH SEMINAR 2007

READING LIST

Check this Reading list every few days as it will be frequently updated.

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ANN BANFIELD

The main texts for these two seminars will be Beckett’s How It Is, and Nohow On [Company, Ill Seen Ill Said and Worstward Ho].

Ann Banfield, 'Beckett's Tattered Syntax' [supplied digitally].

SEAMUS DEANE

Georg Lukács
Georg Lukács, The historical novel (Boston, 1963), Chapters 1, 2 & 3.
Georg Lukács, The meaning of contemporary realism (Merlin, 1962): ‘Franz Kafka or Thomas Mann?’, pp. 47-92; ‘The ideology of Modernism’, pp. 17-96
From Arpad Kadarsky (ed.), The Lukács reader (Oxford, Blackwell, 1995): ‘Class Consciousness’ pp. 222-45;  ‘Oscar Wilde’ pp. 120-24; ‘Bernard Shaw’, pp. 125-40. [‘The Ideology of Modernism’ is also in this volume, pp 187-210].

Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings (ed.) Michael W. Jennings, 4 v., (Harvard, 1999-2003).
Volume 3.
‘The Storyteller: Observations on the works of Nikolai Leskov’, pp. 143-66.
Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on the essay ‘Paris, the capital of the
nineteenth century’, pp. 50-67.
Volume 4.
‘The work of art in the age of its mechanical reproduction’ [Third version],
pp. 251-83.
 ‘On some motifs in Baudelaire’, pp. 313-55.
‘The Paris of the Second Empire’ in Baudelaire, pp. 3-92.
Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on ‘The Flaneur’, pp. 200-14.

Theodor Adorno:
From Brian O’Connor (ed.), The Adorno reader (Oxford, Blackwell, 2000):
 ‘The essay as form’, pp. 91-111;
‘The concept of enlightenment’, pp. 155-73.
 ‘Cultural criticism and society’, pp. 195-210.
 ‘Lyric poetry and society’, pp. 211-29.
 ‘Culture industry reconsidered’, pp. 230-64.
 ‘The autonomy of art’, pp. 239-64.
 ‘Alienated masterpiece: The “Missa Solemnis’’, pp. 304-18.
 ‘Trying to understand Endgame’, pp. 319-34.

Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson, Marxism and form (Princeton, 1971), chapters 1, 3 & 4
Fredric Jameson, The political unconscious (Methuen, 1981), Chapters 1 & 6
Fredric Jameson, A singular modernity (Verso, 2002), pp. 15-210.

Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson, In the tracks of historical materialism (1984).
Perry Anderson, A zone of engagement (1992), chapters 2, 9, 11 & 12.
Perry Anderson, Spectrum (2005), chapters 1, 5 & 13.

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RENEE FOX

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 'Carmilla' from In a Glass Darkly (Oxford
University Press)

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 'Laura Silver Bell' (online at:
http://www.online-literature.com/lefanu/1778/)

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,'The Child that Went with the Fairies' (online at:
http://www.online-literature.com/lefanu/1772/)


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LUKE GIBBONS

Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty, 1934)
READING:
J.M. Synge, The Aran Islands (Oxford, 1996)


The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
READING:
Maurice Walsh, The Quiet Man (Anvil, 1964)
Luke Gibbons, The Quiet Man (Cork U.P. 2003)


The Dead (John Huston, 1987)
READING:
James Joyce, 'The Dead' in Dubliners
Kevin Barry, The Dead (Cork U.P., 2002)


The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan, 1998)
READING:
Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy, Picador, 1993)
Colin McCabe, The Butcher Boy (Cork U.P., 2007)


The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2005)
READING:
Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, et al, The Wind that Shakes the Barley,
screenplay (Gallery Books, 2006)

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KATIE GOUGH

Brian Dooley, The Black and the Green: The fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Black America (London: Pluto Press, 1998).

Paul Gilroy, ‘The Black Atlantic as a counterculture of modernity’ in The Black Atlantic (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993), pp. 1-40.

Avery Gordon, ‘Her shape and his hand’ in Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the sociological imagination (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 3-28.

Anne McClintock, ‘The Lay of the Land: Genealogies of Imperialism’ in Imperial Leather: Race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest (New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 21-74.

Joseph Roach, ‘Introduction: history, memory and performance’ in Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic performance (New York: Columbia UP, 1996), pp. 1-31.

Kevin Whelan, ‘The Green Atlantic: Radical reciprocities between Ireland and America in the long eighteenth century’ in Kathleen Wilson, A New Imperial History: Culture,identity and modernity in Britain and the Empire 1660-1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004), pp. 216-38. [supplied digitally].

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HEATHER LAIRD

Heather Laird: India and the Translation of the Irish Brehon Laws
NB. You will receive this article in digital format


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BREANDÁN Ó BUACHALLA

NB. All Professor Ó Buachalla's texts (detailed below) will be supplied in a package
when you arrive at the Seminar.

Lecture 1.   Foras Feasa ar Éirinn
Text
D. Comyn & P. Dinneen (ed.), Foras Feasa ar Éirinn. [FFÉ] i-iv (Irish Texts Society 4, 8, 9, 15). Dublin, 1902-14.  Reprint 1987.

1.        FFÉ i   pp 1-9; 3, 5, 19, 33 43, 57, 77, 79;
2.       FFÉ ii  pp 190-197. , 41,

Commentary

1. Cronin (1945, 1948);
2. Ó Buachalla (1985, 1987, 2006);
3. Bradshaw (1993);
4. Cunningham (2000);
5. Kiberd (2000: 25-38).
   
   Lecture 2.   Párliament na mBan
   Text
   B. Ó Cuív (ed.), Párliament na mBan. Dublin, 1977.

2.        Parl. na mBan    pp 14-15
           Cork Hist. Soc.  pp  469-83, 490.

Commentary

1. Ó Cuív (1959);
2. Ó Buachalla (1993).

Lecture 3.   Aogán Ó Rathaille
Text
(a) P. S. Dinneen & T. O’Donoghue (ed.), DántaAodhagáin Uí Rathaille (The Poems of Egan O’Rahilly). London (Irish Texts Society 3), 1911.
(b) B. Ó Buachalla, Aogán Ó Rathaille. Dublin, 2007.
(c) M. Hartnett, Ó Rathaille.  Gallery Books, 1998.

3.        Hartnett pp 45-8; BÓB poem 3, H 74-6, 14-18,
BÓB poems 11, An Coisí; H 68-72, BÓB poem 22.

Commentary

     1. Corkery (1925: 160-92);
     2. Ó Tuama (1995: 101-18);
     3. Kiberd (2000: 39-54); 
     4. Ó Buachalla (2004).

Lecture 4. Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire

Text
(a) S.Ó Tuama (ed.), Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire. Dublin, 1960.
(b) S. Ó Tuama & T. Kinsella, An Duanaire 1600 - 1900: Poems of the Dispossed (Dublin,
          1981), 198-219.
(c) A. Bourke (2002: 1372-78).

4.       An Duanaire     pp 198-205, 208-213, 216-219.

Commentary

    1. Cullen (1993);
    2. Ó Tuama (1995: 78-100)
    3. Ó Buachalla (1998);
    4. Kiberd (2000: 161-81);
    5. Bourke (2002: 1365-67).

Lecture 5. Cúirt an Mhean-Oíche

Text
  (a) L. Ó Murchú (ed.), Cúirt an Mheon-Oíche. Dublin, 1982.
  (b) S. Ó Tuama & T. Kinsella, An Duanaire 1600-1900, Poems  of the Dispossessed. Dublin, 1981. pp 220-47.

  5.        An Duanaire     pp 220-229, 236-47.

Commentary   
  1. Ó Crualaoich (1983);
  2. Ó Tuama (1995: 63-77);
  3. Heaney (1995: 38-62);
  4. Kiberd (2000: 182-202).

Bibliography

Bourke, A. 2002. ‘Lamenting the Dead’, Field-Day Anthology 4: 1365-98.

Bradshaw, B. 1993. ‘Geoffrey Keating: Apologist of Irish Ireland’ in Representing Ireland (ed. B. Bradshaw et al., Cambridge), 166-90.

Corkery, D. 1925. The Hidden Ireland. Dublin.

Cronin, A. 1945. ‘Printed Sources of Keating’s Fora Feasa’, Éigse 4: 235-79.
1948. ‘Sources of Keating’s Foras Feasa ar Éirinn’
Éigse 5: 122-35.

 Cullen, L. 1993. ‘The Contemporary and Later Politics of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire’, Eighteenth-Century Ireland 8: 7-38.

Cunningham, B. 2000. The World of Geoffrey Keating. Dublin.

Heaney, S. 1995. The Redress of Poetry. London.

Kiberd, D. 2000. Irish Classics. London.

Ó Buachalla, B. 1985. ‘Annála Ríoghachta Éireann is Foras Feasa ar Éirinn: an Comhthéacs Comhaimseartha’, Studia Hibernica 22/3: 59-105.

1987. Foreward to reprint of Foras Feasa ar Éirinn.

1993. ‘The Making of a Cork Jacobite’ in Cork History and society (ed. P.
O’Flanagan & C. G. Buttimer, Cork), 469-98.

1998. An Caoine agus an Chaointeoireacht. Dublin.

2004. Dánta Aogáin Uí Rathaille: Reassessments (Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series 15). Dublin.

2006. The Crown of Ireland (Research Papers in Irish Studies 3, NUI Galway), Galway.

2007. Aogán Ó Rathaille. Dublin.

Ó Cruachlaoich, G. 1983. ‘The Vision of Liberation in Cúirt an Mheán-Oíche’ in Folia Gadelica (ed. P. de Brún et al., Cork), 95-104.

Ó Cuív, B. 1959. ‘James Cotter, a Seventeenth-Century Agent of the Crown’ in Journal of
the Royal Society of Antiquaries 89: 139-59.

Ó Tuama, S. 1995. Repossessions: Selected Essays on the Irish Literary Heritage. Cork.

                          

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AIDAN O'MALLEY

Seamus Deane, ‘General Introduction’, The Field Day Anthology of
Irish Writing, Vol. I, pp. xix-xxvi

Seamus Deane, ‘Introduction’, ‘James Joyce (1882-1941)’, The Field
Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vol. III, pp. 1-4

‘Preface’, The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing,Vols. IV and V,
pp. xxxii-xxxvi

Angela Bourke, ‘General Introduction’ to ‘Oral Traditions’, The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vol. IV, pp. 1191-1197

Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, ‘Introduction’ to ‘Storytelling Traditions of the
Irish Travellers’, The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vol. IV,
pp. 1263-1270

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KEVIN WHELAN

Arthur Young, A tour in Ireland 1776-1779, 2 v
(Irish University Press, reprint, 1970).

Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the Irish rebellion of 1798 [1801],
Fourth edition, edited by Steven Myers & Dolores McKnight
(Fort Wayne, Round Tower books, 1995).

Maria Edgeworth, An essay on Irish bulls [1801],
edited by Jane Desmarais & Marilyn Butler
(University College Dublin Press, reprint, 2006)

Thomas Moore, Captain Rock (London, 1824).
NB. Chapters will be supplied in digital format.

George Cornewall Lewis, Local disturbances in Ireland [1836],
(Cork, Tower Books, reprint, 1977).

Gustave de Beaumont, Ireland [1839]
with an introduction by Tom Garvin & Andreas Hess
(Harvard University Press, 2006).

Alexis de Tocqueville’s journey in Ireland July-August 1835, translated and edited by Emmet Larkin
(Catholic University of America Press, 1990).