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Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

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Module Title
Module Code (ITS)
Faculty School
Module Co-ordinatorSemester 1: Ellen Howley
Semester 2: Ellen Howley
Autumn: Ellen Howley
Module TeachersEllen Howley
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
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Description



Learning Outcomes

1. 1. Recognize key features of Irish writing from the later nineteenth century to the contemporary moment.
2. 2. Trace central preoccupations of Irish writing such as national identity; religion; gender; class, language
3. 3. Appreciate the complex creative relations at play between Irish writers from various periods.
4. 4. Engage with Irish writing in relation to significant cultural and political developments in local and global contexts.
5. 5. Show understanding of the changes and developments in Ireland as reflected in the literature of the period.
6. 6. Consider central developments of in Irish writing reflected in form, content and genre



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Total Workload: 0

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Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment% Examination Weight%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Essayn/a100%n/a
Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories:
Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module.
Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
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