Also of that generation was Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (1919-1982), an Irish-language poet and novelist from Ballinasloe, County Galway who had served as a commissioned officer in the Irish Army during The Emergency. Irish fiction became largely concentrated in a newly embraced national genre after independence: the short story. Frank O’Connor and Sean O’Faolain, both from Cork, had been pupils of the nationalist writer Daniel Corkery, whose account of 18th-century Irish literary history, The Hidden Ireland (1925), was a key moment in the development of a native Irish literary criticism. O’Connor and O’Faolain, however, rejected their early affinities with republicanism and nationalism and began to produce stories that dealt squarely and realistically with the contemporary condition of their country. O’Faolain also founded a literary magazine, The Bell, in 1940, and it remained a crucial outlet for the best Irish writers, particularly during World War II, when Ireland’s neutrality isolated it even further from wider European literary currents. Work in the short story similar to that of O’Connor and O’Faolain was done by Liam O’Flaherty, Michael McLaverty, and Mary Lavin. McLaverty was for a time the lone Roman Catholic literary voice in Protestant and unionist-dominated Northern Ireland, while Lavin, born in the United States, made middle-class domestic life her subject. Elizabeth Bowen, who was born in Dublin but spent much of her adult life in London, began publishing volumes of short stories in the 1920s. As we remarked above when introducing the Katharine Tynan poem, Ireland has had its fair share of heroes in history and myth, and in this contemporary poem, the female Irish poet Eavan Boland muses upon how she fits in with Ireland’s heroic past. Although, as Boland has said in an interview, no statue such as she describes in the poem actually exists, it neatly expresses the aspects of the hero which Boland associates with Irish culture and history. Yeats (1865-1939) has to feature on any list of the greatest Irish poets, and he often wrote about Irish history and politics throughout his long literary career. No list of the greatest Irish poems should exist without something from Seamus Heaney, one of Ireland’s most famous and well-loved poets.

The main poets of this period include Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (1625?–1698), Piaras Feiritéar (1600?–1653) and Aogán Ó Rathaille (1675–1729). Ó Rathaille belongs as much to the 18th as the 17th century and his work, including the introduction of the aisling genre, marks something of a transition to a post- Battle of the Boyne Ireland. Originally published in 1893 as part of the collection entitled The Rose, W. B. Yeats’“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is a good illustration of his lyric poems during his early days as a poet. Ceó meala lá seaca," in de Brún, Pádraig; Ó Buachalla, Breandán; Ó Concheanainn, Tomás, Nua-Dhuanaire: Cuid 1, Institiúid Ardléinn Bhaile Átha Cliath 1975: p. 83 In 1728 Tadhg wrote a poem in which there is a description of the members of the Ó Neachtain literary circle: twenty-six people are mentioned, mostly from Leinster but with others from every province. [4]Students may apply for the Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award (each worth €1,000), open to students studying for Masters degrees in Creative Writing or in Poetry in three Irish academic institutions. Graduate Plus/Future Ready Award for extra-curricular skills Lear came to Ireland to attend the first Irish meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1835. The Association brought together knowledgeable amateur geologists, ornithologists, zoologists, botanists and astronomers with University Professors and the small number of specialists who were beginning to be known as ‘scientists’ (a word only coined in 1831). Meeting at the newly opened Dublin Zoo, these citizen scientists exchanged ideas about everything from fossil fish to the ‘action of light upon plants.’ As a painter of rare specimens of animals and birds, Lear knew a great deal about the appearance and behaviour of different species: he had studied them intensely to capture them in brilliant lithographs – themselves the fruit of new technology. Steaming in on the new train line from Kingstown to Dublin, he must have loved seeing the ostriches, the monkeys, and the leopard that the zoo proudly presented to astonished visitors. Edward Lear (1812-1888) If a programme includes a major project or dissertation, there may be costs associated with transport, accommodation and/or materials. The amount will depend on the project chosen. There may also be additional costs for printing and binding.

Apart from Yeats, much of the impetus for the Celtic Revival came from the work of scholarly translators who were aiding in the discovery of both the ancient sagas and Ossianic poetry and the more recent folk song tradition in Irish. One of the most significant of these was Douglas Hyde, later the first President of Ireland, whose Love Songs of Connacht was widely admired. The poet also describes a once beautiful and busy land that has now been deserted, thanks to the greedy landowners. 10. “Digging” by Seamus HeaneyShe died in 1867 at the age of nine. Her brother Oscar wrote “Requiescat” in 1881, as a touching elegy for her. Audrey Deng (2011), "A talkative corpse: the joys of writing poetry in Irish," Columbia Journal: http://columbiajournal.org/a-talkative-corpse-the-joys-of-writing-poetry-in-irish-3/ The Great Famine, with its material and sociological consequences, had a considerable effect on Irish music. The number of Irish speakers declined because of death or emigration. There was a radical shift in land use, with tillage giving way to pasture, which was less labour-intensive. Songs to do with ploughing, reaping and sowing could no longer be sustained. There were, however, contemporary songs in Irish about the Famine itself, such as An Drochshaol (from West Cork), Amhrán na bPrátaí Dubha (from County Waterford), and Johnny Seoighe (from Conamara). [8]

The University's Recognition of Prior Learning Policy provides guidance on the assessment of experiential learning (RPEL). Please visit http://go.qub.ac.uk/RPLpolicy for more information. He was born in County Derry, Northern Ireland in 1939. While his early poetry reflected his rural upbringing, he soon turned to the subject matter he would come to be known for, the violent political struggles of the 1970s in Northern Ireland, often referred to as the ‘Troubles’. He also published an award-winning translation of ‘Beowulf’. During the course of the 19th century, political and economic factors resulted in the decline of the Irish language and the concurrent rise of English as the main language of Ireland. This fact is reflected in the poetry of the period. Poetry in Irish saw a revolution beginning in the end of the 1940s with the poetry of Máirtín Ó Direáin (1910-1988), Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916-1977) and Máire Mhac an tSaoi (1922-2021). Their poetry, though retaining a sense of the tradition, continued the legacy of Pearse by introducing Modernist poetry into the Irish language.

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Exit qualifications are available: students may exit with a Postgraduate Diploma by successfully completing 120 CATS points from taught modules or a Postgraduate Certificate by successfully completing 60 CATS points from taught modules. Compulsory Modules While Kavanagh’s “Shancoduff” can be regarded as a pastoral poem, it actually focuses on nature in general. In “Shancoduff,” the poet memorializes country living and connects it with bigger themes. Heaney is perhaps the most well known of Irish poets and Ireland's first Nobel prize-winning poet since WB Yeats.

The newly created Irish Poetry Reading Archive (IPRA) is building into a comprehensive web-based library of Irish poets. Hosted by UCD’s Digital Library, a part of the university's James Joyce Library, it has an archive of contemporary Irish poets. These include established and emerging poets in both the English and Irish languages, experimental and emigrant poets, as well as performance poets. It contains videos of poets reading their work, as well hand-written copies of the recorded poems, signed copies of their collections, and a growing collection of poets' archives. MacGreevy (1893-1967) was an important figure in Irish literary modernism. Born in County Kerry, he served in the First World War at both Ypres and the Somme, and went on to study at Trinity College, Dublin. The crucial influence on his development as a modernist poet came from meeting both James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. He published Poems in 1934, but he remains a less well-known figure in Irish modernism – even though he was arguably more ‘modernist’ than Yeats. A discussion and analysis of how poetic form in general is produced, this module introduces students to the form and language of poetry as well as the historical dimensions of, and contexts for, various poetic forms. It analyses poetic forms in detail, grounding students in specific poetic forms (e.g. the sonnet, the sestina, villanelle), reading a wide range of examples by different poets, with students engaging with a different set form each week. Learning OutcomesHeaney was probably the best-known of these poets. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, and served as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard, and as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. O’Casey’s was very much an urban drama. His ear for Dublin street language and his strong, resilient, funny characters—particularly female ones—made O’Casey’s plays fresh and natural, especially when read against the older work of another great Abbey playwright, Synge. In O’Casey’s three major plays, the violence of the public world, which happens offstage, is set alongside a private domestic universe (usually Dublin tenement rooms) in which humans attempt to survive and make sense of the violence. The pieties of revolutionary nationalism do not come off well in these plays. In 1926, with the fourth performance of The Plough and the Stars, O’Casey gave the Abbey its second great set of riots; Yeats confronted the audience and, reminding them of the Playboy riots of 1907, famously declared: “You have disgraced yourselves again.” William Butler Yeats, one of the best poets Ireland has ever had, has to be a part of any list that has to do with Irish poetry. be able to write a dissertation which adheres to scholarly norms of presentation and reference. Skills