The Great Tours: Ireland and Northern Ireland
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Explore the passionate history, world-renowned culture, breathtaking landscape, and welcoming people of the Emerald Isle.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: A Destination like No Other
- 02: Prehistoric and Celtic Ireland
- 03: Early Christian and Medieval Ireland
- 04: Ireland during the Protestant Ascendancy
- 05: From the Easter Rising to the Present Day
- 06: Dublin’s Fair City
- 07: Dublin Today, South and North of the Liffey
- 08: The Churches of Dublin
- 09: The Museums of Dublin
- 10: Day Trips from Dublin
- 11: Kilkenny, the Rock of Cashel, and Cahir
- 12: Exploring Cork
- 13: Killarney and the Ring of Kerry
- 14: The Dingle Peninsula
- 15: North Kerry, from Tralee to the Shannon
- 16: Clare and Galway, the Heart of the West
- 17: Traveling Ireland’s Northwest
- 18: The Ireland of W. B. Yeats
- 19: The Irish Revival in Literature and Art
- 20: James Joyce’s Ireland
- 21: Experiencing Belfast
- 22: Northern Ireland beyond Belfast
- 23: Pub Life and Traditional Irish Music
- 24: Ireland in Film and Sport
Taught by
Marc C. Conner
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