Wednesdays 

Garrett Fagan

This course is designed to tie in with events in the Dublin: One City, One Book festival 2013 culminating in an extended engagement with the 2013 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 2013, Strumpet City by James Plunkett, making full use of events staged by Dublin City Libraries and project partners.

For more information go to http://www.ucd.ie/adulted/coursesbycode/ln248/