Eavan Boland: Poems and Essays.

25 Novembro 2024, 15:30 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Introduction on the author and the work: the political and the literary legacy into which she begins to write.

Oral presentation on "The Lost Land".

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Seamus Heaney: Poems

20 Novembro 2024, 15:30 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Further reading and discussion of selected poems: "Digging"; "Act of Union"; "Punishment".

Oral presentation on, and discussion of, "Human Chain".

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Seamu.s Heaney: Poems

18 Novembro 2024, 15:30 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Introduction on the poet and the work: the political and the personal, from Northern Ireland to the world.

Oral presentations on selected poems: "When We Were Away at Mass"; "Had I Not Been Awake".

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Post-independence Ireland and Northern Ireland: overview (2).

13 Novembro 2024, 15:30 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Northern Ireland: Troubles; Belfast Good Friday Agreement (1998); post-1998.

Personal essay on post-conflict Northern Ireland: Lyra McKee, The Lost Boys (extracts); ‘Suicide of the Ceasefire Babies’, Lost, Found, Remembered: In Her Own Words, 2021, pp. 11-57; 65-80.

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Post-independence Ireland and Northern Ireland: overview (1).

11 Novembro 2024, 15:30 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Republic of Ireland: state, church, gender, emigration/immigration.

- State, Church and gender: oral presentation on Emilie Pine, “Speaking / Not Speaking”, Notes to Self: Essays, Dublin: Tramp Press, 2018, pp. 79-95.

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