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Apr 25, 2024
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2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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US 201 A Terrible Beauty: Ireland in the 20th Century
An undergraduate workshop course providing an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural myths and political realities of twentieth-century Ireland portrayed in important works of Irish film and literature. Open to students from all majors, this discussion course focuses on Ireland’s colonial and post-colonial conflicts with England (the UK), including Ireland’s massive, ongoing emigration, the Risings & Easter Rebellion, War of Independence, Civil War, Civil Rights Movement in the North, & The Troubles followed by the fragile 1998 Good Friday Peace Accord. The course probes cultural heritage underlying these ongoing conflicts, recognized in such themes as emigration and the myths of the West (including links to the U.S.); the role of women in Irish culture; and Ireland’s developing global identity created by a long historical relationship (social, political, economic, military, & cultural) joining the peoples of the U.K, the U.S., and Ireland. Songs, fiction, historical & political documents, poetry: All stand as living testimony to the discord and violence experienced by the Irish people whose diaspora & suffering, defiance & death, chart a century of boundary crossings whose paths continue into the 21st century. This course focuses on creative texts—Irish films and literature that students must keep up with for class discussions—supported by extensive background documents from historical, social, political, and journalistic sources.
Prerequisite: EN101
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