The literary revival; Celtic Twilight, Douglas Hyde and the Gaelic League
Irish dramatists and the London scene: Oscar Wilde and G. B. Shaw
The new Irish drama; Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge and the Abbey Theatre
J. M. Synge and the modernist theatre
W. B. Yeats’s poetic career, significance and influence
Ireland and modernism: James Joyce
New trends in fiction between the two World Wars: sociographic-autobiographical populism (Thomas O’Crochan, Maurice O’Sullivan), late-naturalism (Liam O’Flaherty) and new experimentalism (Flann O’Brien/Myles na Copaleen and Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett, dramatist
Modern Irish drama from the 20s to the present (Sean O’Casey, Dennis Johnston, Brendan Behan, Brian Friel, Thomas Murphy, Stewart Parker)
The first generation of Irish poets after Yeats (Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh)
Irish poetry after World War II (John Montague, Thomas Kinsella, Brendan Kennelly, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, Medbh McGuckian and others)
The novel today (John McGahern, John Banville, Dermot Bolger, Colm Tóibín, Roddy Doyle and others)