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Irland

Siden vil gradvis blive opbygget til at handle om Irland og Nordirland - den vil handle både om The Troubles og om mere normale begivenheder osv. i Irland.

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Irland

Part 0

Irish Dance

Irish dance is a group of traditional dance forms originating in Ireland which can broadly be divided into social dance and performance dances. Irish social dances can be divided further into céilí and set dancing.

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Writers

James Joyce

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David Park

Bibliography

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Irish Writers

2) Useful anthologies 

  • Chris Agee, The New North - Contemporary Poetry from Northern Ireland (Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2008)
  • Bolger, Dermot (ed.), Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction (London: Vintage, 1995)
  • Bourke, Angela et al. (eds), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vols 4 and 5: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions (Cork: Cork University Press, 2003)
  • Crotty, Patrick (ed.), Modern Irish Poetry (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1995)
  • Deane, Seamus (ed.), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 3 vols (Derry: Field Day Publications, 1991)
  • Muldoon, Paul (ed.), The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (London: Faber, 1986)
  • O'Brien, Peggy (ed.), Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry 1967-2000 (Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1999)
  • Ormsby, Frank (ed.), A Rage for Order. Poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Belfast: Blackstaff, 1992)
  • Pierce, David (ed.), Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader (Cork: Cork University Press, 2000)

3) Selected Secondary Reading 

  • Cairns, David, and Shaun Richards, Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988)
  • Campbell, Matthew (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
  • Cleary, Joe, and Claire Connolly (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
  • Connolly, Claire (ed.), Theorizing Ireland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
  • Corcoran, Neil, After Yeats and Joyce. Reading Modern Irish Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997
  • Deane, Seamus, Celtic Revivals. Essays in Modern Irish Literature (London: Faber, 1985)
  • Deane, Seamus, A Short History of Irish Literature (London: Hutchinson, 1986)
  • Goodby, John, Irish Poetry since 1950. From Stillness into History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)
  • Grene, Nicholas, The Politics of Irish Drama. Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
  • Kenner, Hugh, A Colder Eye. The Modern Irish Writers (New York: Knopf, 1983)
  • Kiberd, Declan, Inventing Ireland. The Literature of the Modern Nation (London: Vintage, 1996)
  • Longley, Edna, The Living Stream. Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1994)
  • Murray, Christopher, Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997)
  • Peach, Linden, The Contemporary Irish Novel: Critical Readings (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
  • Richards, Shaun (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)  

Irsk historie

  • Seamas Mac Annaidh, Irish History (Parragon 2007) ISBN: 978-1-4054-6820-6 - Håndbog med korte beskrivelser af væsentlige begivenheder i irsk historie.
  • Irish History Online (Irish History Online is an authoritative guide (in progress) to what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. It has been established in association with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History (of which it is now the Irish component) and London's Past Online.
  • The Irish Famine (BBC)
  • Key Events in Northern Ireland History (BBC)

Podcasts

Podcasts der kan anvendes i Dublin af elever.

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Undervisning

Prescribed Material for English in the Leaving Certificate Examination in 2010.

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Literature of The Toubles - A Selection

 

  • Seamus Heaney: A Constable CallsRequiem for the Croppies, The Toome Road, The Other Side
  • James Simmons: The Ballad of Gerry Kelly: Newsagent, Claudy, for Henry Barton a song, Lament for a Dead Policeman
  • Michael Longley: The Civil Servant, The Greengrocer 
  • Eugene Stranney: Sudden, a short story
  • Padraic Fiacc: The Ditch of Dawn
  • Maurice Leitch: Silver's City, a novel 1981
  • Robert McLiam Wilson: Eureka Street, a novel 1996 made into a BBC miniseries in 1999
  • David Park: Killing a Brit, short story 1990 - se Anglo Files # 155
  • Ud over de nævnte Heaneydigte kan anbefales Two Lorries og Whatever you say, say Nothing.
  •  Desuden giver Joan Lingards skildring af barndommen i Belfast et godt indblik i problematikken. I dette tilfælde specielt derved at Lingard som opvokset i en Christian Scientist familie hverken hørte til den ene eller den anden side af konflikten, men observerer, hvordan det er for en katolsk familie at bo i et af East Belfasts protestantiske kvarterer. John Quinn, editor, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Girl, Mandarin 1985 pp.93 -109 (Portraits of Childhood in Ireland by nine women writers)
  •  Laurel Hollidays dokumentar Why Do They Hate Me? Archway Paperback 1999, har et afsnit kaldt “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland (pp 133 – 212) med letlæste interviews med unge berørt af konflikten.
  • Brian Hanratty, Sixth Formers Reading The Troubles 

Irland og Irlands historie

En meget personlig hjemmeside om både Nordirland og republikken. Den er både på engelsk og dansk. Den er ikke voldsomt dybtgående, men kan bruges som introduktion til adskillige emner som fredsprocessen og den katolske kirkes børnemisbrug.

Nordirlands forløb

Forløb udarbejdet af Margit Nordskov Nielsen til Anglo Files # 155

 

Noveller:

  • David Park, KIlling a Brit (1990)
  • Marita Conlon-McKenna, Good Girl (2001)
  • Bernard Mac Laverty, Father and Son (1978)
  • Frank O'Connor, Guests of the Nation (1931)

Digte:

Film: 

Selvbiografi:

Webquest:

Skuespil:

Artikler:

  • The Hand of History, Revisited - the triumph and disappointment of the Good Friday Agreement ten years on (2008)
  • Mulvad og Zedlitz, 57 online varieties of English (2001): Northern Ireland Peace Process p. 178-183