Summer 2016, the first UNM Ireland Study Abroad Program, with Prof. Albrecht Classen, Univ. of Arizona.

I am very excited about this new study abroad program in Ireland and look very much forward to meeting all of you.

Limerick:

SYLLABUS (Prof. Albrecht Classen)

Texts to be studied during our Summer 2016 program:

** Introduction to the Middle Ages by A Classen and Emily Amt (2012)

1. John O’Beirne Ranelagh, A Short History of Ireland, 1983, 22-42

2. Early Irish Myths and Sagas – Part1 1981, 37-59

3. Early Irish Myths and Sagas, trans. Jeffrey Gantz, 1981, 113-126

4. “The Tragic Death of Connla,” in An Anthology of Irish Literature, ed. David H. Greene, 1954, 44-60

5. “The Story of Deirdre,” in An Anthology of Irish Literature, ed. David H. Greene, 1954, 76-80

6. “Immram Brain (The Voyage of Bran)”, in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, ed. Seamus Deane, 1992, 54-59

7. “Sancti Columbani Opera (The Works of St. Columbanus), Letter II,” in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, ed. Seamus Deane, 1992, 83-86

8. “The Song of Dermot and the Earl” and “The Walling of New Ross”,  in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, ed. Seamus Deane, 1992, 149-52.

9. St. Brendan

History of Irish Art

Images of Christian Art in Ireland

High Crosses

Viking Age

Norman Architecture

Sheena-la-gigs and phallic objects

Vikings map

Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland