Dublin: One City, One Book
SPRING LN248 
Garrett Fagan
This course is designed to tie in with events in the Dublin: One City, One Book festival 2012 culminating in an extended engagement with the 2012 selected title. Students will also read the books previously chosen for the Dublin: One City, One Book festival: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Bram Stoker ’s Dracula, Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way, Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light. The focus of the course will be to situate these books as Dublin books, showing different aspects and histories of the city. The course will consider the changing place of Dublin in literature and examine different ways the city has been represented by writers. The course will build up to a sustained consideration of the Dublin: One City, One Book choice for 2012 making full use of events staged by Dublin City Libraries.
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Belfield |
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10 Tuesdays |
Feb 21, 28, Mar 6, 13, 20, 27, Apr 3, 10, 17, 24 |
7.30pm - 9.30pm |
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FEE €175 |
Print Open Learning Application Form 2011-2012 or ring (01) 716 7123 for Laser/ credit card payment |
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Garrett Fagan has taught at universities in Dublin including UCD and at Warwick University in the UK. He has interests in Renaissance literature, legal - literary relations and Anglo Irish writing.
