Maurice Fitzpatrick
The Irish Troubles and the Peace Process
The Troubles in Ireland have erroneously been portrayed as a phenomenon confined to the North-East of the country, and to the past forty years, by the world media. Using dramatic, poetic and prose texts, as well as film, we explore the causes of the Irish Troubles and discuss Ireland's problematic relationship with England since the partition of Ireland. We focus on the role that writers played in defining difficulties in the Irish situation in broad terms and we consider how peace was ultimately brokered through dialogue.
TWELVE SESSIONS
Wednesday June 27th
16.15-17.45 ONE Introductory Lecture: Stunted Growth of the South
18.45-19.45 TWO Discussion and screening of Neil Jordan's Michael Collins
Thursday June 28th
16.45-17.45 THREE Lecture: Stunted Growth of the North (including a discussion of Seamus
Deane's Introduction to Brian Friel's Selected Plays in the Faber and Faber edition)
18.15-19.45 FOUR Lecture on political poetry: Heaney's collection North
Friday June 29th
08.30-10.00 FIVE from The Tower by W B Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium; The
Tower; Meditations in Time of Civil War
10.15-11.45 SIX Drama of the Troubles: Antigone (The Riot Act, Faber and
Faber) by Tom Paulin
14.15-15.45 SEVEN from A New Ireland by John Hume, Chapter 2: 'Desperate
Injustice'
16.15-17.45 EIGHT Northern Protestant voices: a short selection of poems by Derek
Mahon, Louis MacNeice and Michael Longley
18.15-19.45 NINE Screening and discussion of Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the
Father
Saturday June 30th
10.15-11.45 TEN Translations by Brian Friel and a lecture on the Field
Day Theatre and Publication Company
14.15-15.45 ELEVEN The Boys of St. Columb's: a screening of and a talk on the
film/book I wrote for the BBC and RTE
16.15-17.45 TWELVE Film Lelia Doolan's Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey, Notes on a
Political Journey
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