University College Dublin

This course examines the history of Ireland, taking a wide view of the island’s history, from the introduction of Christianity to Ireland until the present day. The course aims to provide students with a broad outline of Irish history, introducing them to important aspects of Irish history and culture.

This course provides a firm understanding of physical concepts and processes, and students apply concepts learnt to recent advances in our understanding of science in general. Under the headings of physiology, diagnosis and therapy, and on scales from the cell through macro-organisms to the environment, students learn ways in which biological and medical phenomena may be better understood from a physics viewpoint. 

This course explores a range of children’s literature by an eclectic set of writers from different cultural and historical contexts, surveying the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, representing what we have come to understand as a 'golden age'. Through a series of lectures, students read a variety of different texts, and by the end of the course, through close reading and analysis, are able to demonstrate a knowledge of major children’s authors, identify different categories of children’s literature, and illustrate an understanding of how these works reflect key social, political and cultural issues, with a particular focus on less-obvious aspects of the texts, and some of their radical underpinnings.