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 work on their portfolios.
Students will be required to take workshops, courses of lectures, and take the 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 novelist Chris Binchy will hold a series of 2-hour workshops. In Hilary Term, Declan Hughes, The Irish Writer Fellow will offer a specialist workshop and poet and publisher Peter Fallon will moderate the Briena Staunton Masterclass during February 2014 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, Prof Gerald Dawe, Prof Paul Delaney and Prof Nicholas Grene teach the specialist subjects. The Writer Fellow workshop in Hilary Term is also available 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 Prof Deirdre Madden (B)
The Author, the Book and the Marketplace (15 ECTS)
This is a weekly 1-hour seminar given by Prof Jonathan Williams
Option Courses:
Michaelmas Term:
Visiting Writer specialist workshop
A weekly 2- hour workshop given by the Mr Chris Binchy, novelist
N/B M.Phil in Irish Writing Options courses are available for M.Phil in Creative Writing students on a strictly audit basis only.
Writing the Troubles (10 ECTS)
This is taught by Prof Terence Brown in a weekly 2-hour seminar.
Big House Literature
This is taught by Prof Paul Delaney in a weekly 2-hour seminar
Required Courses:
Hilary Term:
Workshops (20 ECTS)
These are weekly 3-hour workshops given by Prof Deirdre Madden (A) and Dr Gerald Dawe (B)
The Author, the Book and the Marketplace (15 ECTS)
This is a weekly 1-hour seminar given by, Prof Jonathan Williams
Irish Writer Fellow specialist workshop (10 ECTS)
A weekly 2-hour workshop taught by Mr Declan Hughes, Irish Writer Fellow in a weekly 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.
Irish Poetry after Yeats (10 ECTS)
This is taught by Prof Gerald Dawe in a weekly 2-hour seminar
Ireland on Stage (10 ECTS)
This is taught by Prof Nicholas Grene in a weekly 2-hour seminar
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The Briena Staunton Masterclass in Poetry is an optional non-credited workshop which is being offered in Hilary Term by Prof Peter Fallon in three weekly two-hour seminars (6 th , 13 th , 20 th February).
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Students take the specialist writing workshop led by the Writer Fellow in Hilary Term and can audit f the specialist subjects on offer for the M. Phil in Irish Writing 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 Writing the Troubles, Big House Literature, Irish Poetry after Yeats and Ireland on Stage . These are taught in two-hour seminars meeting weekly through each term.
TERM 3: TRINITY TERM
During Trinity Term, students work independently on their portfolios.