The Politics of Contemporary Irish Poetry

Seminar presentation and essay topics

Select the topic of your presentation and end-of-term essay from the ones listed below.

19.10.

1. Patrick Kavanagh. Poems: The Great Hunger Part I, Inniskeen Road: July Evening; Shancoduff.
2. Louis MacNeice. Poems: Autumn Journal: Part XVI; Carrickfergus; Belfast; Snow; Autobiography.

26.10-2.11

3. John Hewitt. Poems: The Colony; Once Alien Here; Ulster Names.
4. Seamus Heaney. Poems: Digging; Bogland; At A Potato Digging; The Tolund Man; Punishment; Act of Union; The Toome Road; Casualty.

9-16.11

5. Paul Muldoon. Poems: Gathering Mushrooms; Meeting the British; The Sightseers; The Boundary Commission; Aisling; Immrama.
6. Tom Paulin. Poems: A Just State; Desertmartin ; Line on the Grass; Settlers; Surveillances.
7. Ciarán Carson. Poems: Belfast Confetti; Turn Again; The Exiles’ Club; Punctuation; Yes.

23.11

8. John Montague. Poems: The Water Carrier; Like Dolmens Round My Childhood, the Old People; The Country Fiddler; Mad Sweeney; A Drink of Milk.
9. Michael Longley. Poems: In Memoriam; Wounds; Leaving Inishmore; The Butchers; Ceasefire.

30.11-7.12

10. Thomas Kinsella. Poems: From Notes from the Land of Dead: ‘The Hen Woman’.
11. Derek Mahon. Poems: A Disused Shed in Co Wexford, The Last of the Fire Kings; Derry Morning; A Refusal to Mourn.
12. Paul Durcan. Poems: Making Love Outside Arás An Uachtaráin; In Memory of Those Murdered in the Dublin Massacre, May 1974; The Kilfenora Teaboy.

14-21.12

13. Eavan Boland. Poems: Mise Éire; Anna Liffey.
14. Medbh McGuckian. Poems: Mr McGregor’s Garden; Venus and the Rain; The Flower Master; Charlotte’s Delivery; Marconi’s Cottage.
15. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Poems: Blodwedd; Kundalini; the Táin poems.

Now clich here to register. If your topic is already taken, repeat the selection process.