Week 3 slides for students studying EN3604: Writing Ireland at Brunel University.

1. Writing Ireland
Week 3: The Abbey:
Riots Onstage and Off

2. The Abbey Theatre
"You have
disgraced
yourself again,
is this to be the
recurring
celebration of
the arrival of
Irish genius?".

3. The Playboy Riots
“…a drift of
Mayo girls
standing in ..
their shifts
itself.”

4. Sean O’Casey
See more at:
See more at:
http://www.irishwriters-online.com/ocasey-sean/
http://www.irishwriters-online.com/ocasey-sean/
http://www.seanocasey.co.uk/
http://www.seanocasey.co.uk/

6. 1916…

7. The Play
Tenement realities?
Tenement realities?
Heroism of women?
Heroism of women?
Critiqueand Question?
Critique and Question?
Protest and controversy
Protest and controversy

8. Next Week
“All changed,
“All changed,
Yeats, W.B., W. B. Yeats (Faber 80th Anniversary Edition) Seamus
Yeats, W.B., W. B. Yeats (Faber 80th Anniversary Edition) Seamus changed
changed
Heaney ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 2009)
Heaney ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 2009) utterly”:
utterly”:
Particularly:
Particularly: Poetry of
Poetry of
••The Lake of Innisfree
The Lake of Innisfree Revolution and
Revolution and
••To Ireland in the Coming Times
To Ireland in the Coming Times Resolution
Resolution
••No Second Troy
No Second Troy
••Easter 1916
Easter 1916
••Meditations in Time of Civil War
Meditations in Time of Civil War
Chapman, Wayne K. “Joyce and Yeats: Easter 1916 and the Great War”
Chapman, Wayne K. “Joyce and Yeats: Easter 1916 and the Great War”
New Hibernia Review, Volume 10, Number 4, Geimhreadh/Winter 2006,
New Hibernia Review, Volume 10, Number 4, Geimhreadh/Winter 2006,
pp. 137-151
pp. 137-151