IRISH LITERATURE
THE LAND OF THE POET WARRIORS

Richard Braithwaite | 1:30 – 2:30 pm Wednesdays, September 25 through November 20

From the Medieval epic, The Tain Bo Cuailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), to the Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Ireland has produced, arguably, finer writers than any other nation. Swift, Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Friel, and a host of modern playwrights demonstrate the magic of living in an oral culture, much like the American South. Irish writers reveal both the past—the Tain and the writings of Yeats; and the future—Beckett and Joyce.

Richard Braithwaite is a novelist, lecturer, and teacher. His A.B. (Dartmouth) and his M.F.A (Florida) are in literature and fiction writing. He has led more than a dozen courses at The Learning Center.