Taught Elements

Course Outline:

Teaching in this course takes place in two terms of twelve weeks duration. The first term is called the MICHAELMAS TERM, the second, the HILARY TERM. In the third term, TRINITY EXAM TERM, students begin working on their portfolios and attend several guest lectures/readings.

Students will be required to take workshops, 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 will carry the main weight of the teaching in workshops and individual supervision in Michaelmas and Hilary terms. In Michaelmas term the Visiting Writer, Paul Murray will hold a series of 2-hour workshops. In Hilary term, The Writer Fellow will offer a specialist workshop. Richard Ford, the American novelist will conduct a special seminar in Hilary Term. The literary agent and editor Jonathan Williams teaches the course on The Author, the Book and the Marketplace in Michaelmas and Hilary Terms. In Hilary Term, a number of invited guests as well as faculty speak on The Practice of Writing. Prof Terence Brown, Mr Gerald Dawe, Prof Nicholas Grene, and Dr Eve Patten teach the specialist subjects. The Writer Fellow workshop in Hilary Term is also offered to selected students on the M.Phil.in Irish Writing.

Taught Elements

Michaelmas Term:

Required Courses:

Workshops (20 ECTS)
These are weekly 3-hour workshops given by Prof Gerald Dawe (A) and Ms Deirdre Madden (B)

Visiting Writer specialist workshop
A weekly 2-hour workshop given by Mr Paul Murray

The Author, the Book and the Marketplace (15 ECTS)
This is a weekly 1-hour seminar given by, Prof Jonathan Williams

Hilary Term:

Workshops (20 ECTS)
These are weekly 3-hour workshops given by Prof Gerald Dawe (B) and Ms Deirdre Madden(A)

The Author, the Book and the Marketplace (15 ECTS)
This is a weekly 1-hour seminar given by, Prof Jonathan Williams

Prof Richard Ford Seminar
A special 3 x 2-hour workshop

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 Irish Writing students on a voluntary basis.

Option Courses:

Michaelmas Term:

The Poet and Poetry Yeats, MacNeice and Heaney (10 ECTS)
This is taught by Prof Terence Brown in a weekly 2-hour seminar.

Ireland on Stage (10 ECTS)
This is taught by Prof Nicholas Grene in a weekly 2-hour seminar.

Hilary Term:

Irish Poetry 1935-2005 (10 ECTS)
This is taught by Prof Gerald Dawe in a weekly 2-hour seminar.

Irish Fiction after Joyce (10 ECTS)
This is taught by Dr Eve Patten n in a weekly 2-hour seminar

Irish Writer Fellow specialist workshop (10 ECTS)
A weekly 2-hour workshop taught by the Writer Fellow (TBA)

Writing Workshop/Special Subjects/Independent project.

Students may take the specialist writing workshop led by the Writer Fellow in Hilary Term or one of the specialist subjects on offer for the M. Phil in Irish Writing course in either Michaelmas or Hilary Terms. Admission to these special subjects depends upon the appropriateness of the course and the agreement of the lecturer. The special subjects currently offered are: The Poet and Poetry: Yeats, MacNeice and Heaney, Ireland on Stage, Twentieth Century Irish Fiction and Irish Poetry 1935-2005. 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 the Head School of English, Dr Darryl Jones, undertake an independent project relating to any subject taught in the School of English or any other topic selected with the approval of the Director of the M.Phil in Creative Writing, Prof Gerald Dawe and the permission of the Head of the relevant School.

Trinity Term:

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