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Reading Dublin (One City One Book)

This course will be based around this year's choice of the One Dublin One Book festival 2024  " Snowflake" by Louise Nealon. This is a  poignant and funny novel about a young woman leaving home on  a farm for the excitement of student life in Dublin and finding out that  sometimes when you leave home , you have taken it with you.    The course will tie in with events for the Dublin City Libraries: One Dublin One Book festival 2024.  As part of the course we  will also read other titles and look at other material which relates to "Snowflake"  and  to the theme of leaving home to come to Dublin  in literature. No prior knowledge or skills are required for this course beyond an enjoyment and an interest in reading and in finding out more about your city.

Dates Schedule Time Venue/Location Fee €
03 Apr 2019 to 24 Apr 2019 Sessions: 4
PEARSE STREET LIBRARY, 138 – 144 PEARSE STREET, DUBLIN 2
4 Wednesdays 10.30am – 12.30pm
Apr 3, 10, 17, 24
10:30 PEARSE STREET LIBRARY, 138 – 144 PEARSE STREET, DUBLIN 2

100.00



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4 Wednesdays

10:00-12:00

Dates: Apr 03, 10, 17, 24

This list is provisional and Subject to change. The course structure will be based on the 2024 One Dublin One Book choice with other titles chosen that seem cognate with it as linked thematically, chronologically or in their connection to Dublin. 

The festival book choice will be available from Dublin City Libraries 

At the end of the course students should be able to:

  • Be aware of the richness and diversity of Dublin’s literary heritage
  • Be aware of the historical, political and social contexts that Dublin’s literature grew out of and responded to
  • Have an understanding of how literature can relate to social and political contexts in which it is produced or performed
  • Be aware of how a given text relates to a literary tradition
  • Confidently talk about their response to any given text they might read and to deploy the correct terminology
  • Have an increased understanding of the sorts of conversations and insights it is possible to have about literature through literary analysis 

This course will include group discussion, participative group work, short Audio/video clips, short tutor presentations and short student presentations.

Possible attendance at events associated with the One Dublin One Book festival if available and appropriate. 

Garrett Fagan has taught at universities in Dublin and at Warwick University in the UK. He has interests in Renaissance literature, legal - literary relations and Anglo Irish writing.