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.
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:
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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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Irish
Authors in the Irish Landscape (pages devoted to Irish authors
and their relation to place in Ireland)
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Introducing Irish History: A Web-Text (an
introduction to Irish
history using images, sound, maps, interactive quizzes)
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Mapping
Ireland (an interactive cartography that locates Irish literary
history through computer-generated maps): 1) Select
by county; 2) Select
data points within counties, zoom in to map
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Viewing the Celtic Cross
(a 3-dimensional,
interactive viewing site of the High Crosses at Clonmacnois, Monasterboice,
and other sites)
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Irish Language
and Poetry (audio and visual displays of Irish texts and
landscapes)
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. |