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Teaching in this course takes place in two terms of nine weeks duration. The first term is called the MICHAELMAS TERM, the second, the HILARY TERM. In the third term, TRINITY TERM, students concentrate on their portfolios.

Students will be required to take workshops, attend courses of lectures, and take one special subject or specialist writing workshop, while continuing to develop their own individual work throughout the year.

Gerald Dawe and Deirdre Madden carry the main weight of the teaching in workshops and individual supervision. The literary agent and editor Jonathan Williams teaches the course on The Author, the Book and the Marketplace. In Michaelmas and Hilary Terms, seminars on The Contexts of Anglo-Irishare shared with the M.Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature students. In Hilary Term, a number of invited guests as well as faculty speak on The Practice of Writing. Brian Cliff, Oona Frawley, Nicholas Grene, Heather Ingman, Eve Patten, Gerald Dawe, and The Writer Fellow, teach the special subjects. The specialist-writing workshop offered by the Writer Fellow is offered also to selected students on the M.Phil. in Anglo-Irish Literature.

Taught Elements

Michaelmas Term: Required Courses:

Workshops

These are weekly 3-hour workshops given by Ms Paula Meehan (A) and Ms Deirdre Madden (B)

Visiting Writer specialist workshop

A weekly 2-hour workshop given by Professor Thomas Kilroy

The Contexts of Anglo-Irish Literature

These are a weekly series of eighteen 1-hour lectures, co-ordinated by Professor Brown in Michaelmas Term, Dr. Paul Delaney in Hilary Term, shared with the M.Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature

The Author, the Book and the Marketplace

This is a weekly 1-hour seminar given by, Mr Jonathan Williams

Hilary Term: Required Courses

Workshops

These are weekly 3-hour workshops given by Ms Deirdre Madden (A) and Professor George O'Brien (B)

Irish Writer Fellow specialist workshop

A weekly 2-hour workshop taught by Mr. Michael O'Loughlin

The Author, the Book and the Marketplace

This is a weekly 1-hour seminar given by, Mr Jonathan Williams

The Practice of Writing:

This is a series of weekly talks for the M.Phil. in Creative Writing during which writers from Trinity and outside College, working in Irish as well as English, speak about their own experience of the practice of writing.It is open to M.Phil. in Anglo-Irish Literature students on a voluntary basis.

Option Courses:

This module is taught by Prof. Joe McMinn in a weekly 2-hour seminar.

Literature and Violence

This module is taught by Prof. Brown in a weekly 2-hour seminar.

Hilary Term:

C20 Irish Women´s Writing

This module is taught by Dr. Heather Ingman in a weekly 2-hour seminar.

Poetry in Ireland since 1960

This module is taught by Dr. Lucy Collins in a weekly 2-hour seminar.

Contemporary Irish Fiction

This module is taught by Dr. Brian Cliff in a weekly 2-hour seminar

Writing Workshop/Special Subjects/Independent project.

Students may take the specialist writing workshop led by Michael O´Loughlin, the Writer Fellow, in Hilary Term and or one of the specialist subjects on offer for the M. Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature course in either Michaelmas or Hilary Terms. Admission to these special subjects depends upon the appropriateness of the course and the agreement of the tutor.

The special subjects currently offered are - The Colonial and the Colonised Imagination in Ireland , 1550-1700, Literature and Violence, C20 Irish Women´s Writing, Poetry in Ireland since 1960, and Contemporary Irish Fiction. These are taught in two-hour seminars meeting weekly through one term. Instead of either the writing workshop or special subject, students may, with the permission of Professor Matterson, undertake an independent project relating to any subject taught in the School of English or, with the permission of the Head of the School concerned.

Trinity Term:

During Trinity Term, students work independently on their portfolios, with occasional lectures and seminars to be announced.