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UCD Adult Education Centre are offering a ten week course to tie in with Dublin: One City, One Book. Students will also read the books previously chosen for the Dublin: One City, One Book festival: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way, Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light. The focus of the course will be to situate these books as Dublin books, showing different aspects and histories of the city. The course will consider the changing place of Dublin in literature and examine different ways the city has been represented by writers. The course will build up to a sustained consideration of the Dublin: One City, One Book choice for 2012 making full use of events staged by Dublin City Libraries.
The course tutor is Garrett Fagan. Garett has taught at universities in Dublin including UCD and at Warwick University in the UK. He has interests in Renaissance literature, legal - literary relations and Anglo Irish writing.
