COD 2014 - G735

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Contemporary Irish Poetry

Literature lovers interested in becoming acquainted with contemporary Irish poetry

1 sessions, start: 13-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2014
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 150.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 13 September 2014 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo

Leonardo graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. He is doing his MA degree in Literary Studies at UBA. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant in Contemporary English Literature for two years and one in English Culture and Civilization at UNLP. He has participated in several academic conferences. For the past fifteen years, he has taught ESL and FLE classes for IGCSE and AS/A English Language and Literature in English at Patris Bilingual School, City Bell, and he has prepared IB candidates at St. George's, Quilmes and at Southern International School. For the past three years, he has developed digital material for an online educational platform.
Literature lovers interested in becoming acquainted with contemporary Irish poetry
- Presenting Irish contemporary poets and their themes.
- Reading and discussing contemporary Irish poems.
Selection of poems written by the following poets:
- Harry Clifton, Peter Sirr, Joseph Wood, Pat Boran, Eavan Boland, Mebd McGuckian, Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon, Padraic Fiacc, Richard Murphy, John F. Deane, Paul Durcan, Pádraig Daly, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley
- Brief presentation of themes that have shaped Irish Contemporary Poetry.
- Reading of poems.
- Group discussion.
- Kieberd, Declan (1996) Inventing Ireland. Great Britain: Vintage
- Brown, Terence (2004) Ireland. A Social and Cultural History. Great Britain: Harper Perennial
- Boyce, G. And O’Day, A. (1996) Modern Irish History. Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy. Great Britain: Routledge.
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org
- http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net
- http://poethead.wordpress.com/
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