Institute for the Study of Irish Culture

Directed Studies

Faculty affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture may offer directed studies in the following subjects:

• The Kennedys—the Making of a Dynasty
• Violence in Twentieth Century Ireland: “The Troubles”
• The Potato Famines and Irish Demographics
• The Irish in Boston
• Nationalism in Atlantic Perspective: Ireland and Irish America, 1798-1916
• The Influence of Irish Women in the 19th Century
• Irish Music
• Irish Literature
  • Writing Modern Irish Identities
  • Irish Women Writers
  • Irish Poetry
    • Studies in Poetry: Seamus Heaney
    • Irish Poetry in the Shadow of Yeats
  • Irish Drama
    • Irish Drama in a Global Context
  • Irish Gothic
  • Thomas Moore: Irish Poet and Songwriter
  • Oscar Wilde
• Irish Film
  • What’s Irish about Irish Film?

If you are interested in participating in such a study, please contact the chair of the Institute, Meg Tyler (mtyler@bu.edu).