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Welcome to the Home Site for Irish Literary Studies
at Washington and Lee University. This Web Portal is designed for
the use of Washington and Lee students and faculty, as well as students
and scholars of Irish Studies from other institutions, and indeed for
any person interested in the land and literature of Ireland.
Take a Guided Tour of this
Web Portal
This
Web Portal offers a wide range of resources in Irish Literary Studies.
The heart of the site is the Searchable Database of over 3,000
images, audio and video files, and Quicktime VR files of Ireland. (Click
here to examine the Searchable Database.)
This database includes images of numerous Irish literary sites, sites
of Irish antiquity and history, Irish landscape and architecture, and
much more. From these images, the site includes the following interactive
web-based tools:
- Introducing
Irish History: A Web-Text (an introduction to Irish
history using images, sound, maps, interactive quizzes)
- Virtual Joyce: The Geography
of Ulysses (an interactive, annotated mapping of Joyce's
epic)
- Irish Authors
in the Irish Landscape (Irish authors, their contexts, and their
relation to place in Ireland)
-
Spring Term
in Ireland: the web site for Washington and Lee's Spring
Term in Ireland Program, including detailed itineraries, course offerings,
discussion forums, and The Spring
Travel Logs, detailed narrative and pictorial accounts of the
Washington and Lee Spring Terms in Ireland, 2000 and 2002
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Courses in Irish Literature at Washington and Lee:
syllabi and descriptions of all Irish literature and related courses
offered at W&L
- Mapping Ireland (an interactive cartography
that locates Irish literary history through computer-generated maps):
1) general full color map of
Ireland; 2) View map of Ireland
with selected specific sites
- Viewing the
Celtic Cross (a 3-dimensional, interactive viewing site of
the High Crosses at Clonmacnois, Monasterboice, and other sites)
- Irish
Language and Poetry (audio and visual displays
of Irish texts and landscapes)
- View
"Introducing Ireland," an annotated slide show
What
Washington and Lee offers in Irish Literary Studies . .
This web portal is the home of Irish Literary Studies
at Washington and Lee, and from here students can access all materials
related to the various course offerings in Irish literature. These
courses include the Modern Irish Literature course offered every other
year, numerous seminars and focused topics, as well as the Spring Term
in Ireland program. The Spring Term in Ireland pages include
a complete description of the program, as well as the detailed narrative
and pictorial travel log of the first Spring Term in Ireland, from the
spring of 2000, and the itinerary and 150-image slide-show of the 2002
trip. From these pages, students can also explore other Irish Studies
programs in the U.S. and Ireland, as well as find a range of web sites
in the multiple areas of Irish Studies.
What
this site will become . . .
Over time, this Web Portal will continue to expand
and be of increasing use to all people interested in Irish Studies, Irish
Literature, Irish History, and travel throughout Ireland.
This Portal is designed and administered by Professor
Marc Conner of the English Department at Washington and Lee. Any
comments or questions about the material on this site should be sent to
connerm@wlu.edu. All materials
on this site are the property of Marc Conner, and may be reproduced or
copied by permission only. |