Week 2 slides for students taking the EN3604 Module at Brunel University.

1. Writing Ireland
Week 2: “
The West’s Awake”: Language and Location

2.  Urban /rural
 East/West
 English/Irish
 Internal/External
 Identity
 Memory
 Place
 Names

3. Translations
Background Information

4. Hedge Schools
 Penal Laws
 Language/Religion
 Advent of National
Schools
For more see: P. J. Dowling, The
Hedge Schools of Ireland (1998)

5. National Schools
For more see: James
Johnston Auchmuty, Irish
Education: A Historical Survey
(Hodges Figgis & Co.: Dublin,
1937)

6. OS
 Geographicalsurvey/military
scouting operation?
 Sharing scientific resources/
exerting control?
 Listing and standardising/re-
naming and re-claiming?
 “Anglicising”/eradicating?

7. Daniel O’Connell “The Liberator
Hedge S
Born:
August 6, 1775, County Kerry
Died:
May 15, 1847, Genoa

8. The Irish Language/Gaeilge

9. “The Dead”
Background Information

10. Key themes
 Death/Life, the living/the dead
 Paralysis/Movement
 Inside/Outside, Cold/Warmth
 Coldness/Passion
 Past/Present
 Town/Country
 Ireland/Europe
 Irish/ English
 Narrative/ Narrators

11. Next Week
“To remember everything is a form of madness”:
Memory and Tradition
Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís. The Dancers Dancing (Belfast: Blackstaff, 2007)
Kelly J.S. McGovern "No Right to Be a Child": Irish Girlhood and
Queer Time in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's The Dancers Dancing Éire-
Ireland, Volume 44:1&2, Earrach/Samhradh / Spring/Summer
2009, pp. 242-264
http://tinyurl.com/3kppemo