Registration for Missouri Summer Study Abroad has now closed, and we just learned that the Ireland program led by my colleague Bill Kerwin and me has attracted enough students to make it work.
This program includes a course on Irish literature and a course on Irish culture and identity. It's the first time we've offered this program, and the first time Bill and I have tried to team teach. We want everything to go well, so work on the program will take up a lot of my time. Fair warning, you'll probably hear about this regularly on this blog...
From my last post, you'll recall our plan to study Irish culture primarily through careful observation of the built environment. What can we learn about contemporary Irish culture from the appropriation, management, inhabitance and competing visions of space in Dublin, Derry, Galway, and the country between?
We'll start this work in Dublin -- a city where everything is controversial, and where a working knowledge of history is as useful in navigation as a good street map. If you're a student enrolled in this course, or if you're just curious -- this site may be useful background information.
If you want to know Dublin, you need to know the neighborhoods.
