Ireland's Fairies and Vampires
What you'll learn
- Connection between Irish Fairies and Ireland's vampire Count Dracula.
- About Ireland, Irish writers and Irish Myth and Legend.
Requirements
- No prerequisites and all are welcome.
Description
This course traces connection between Ireland's fairies and vampires in Western culture. We will see how Count Dracula, the creation of Irish writer Bram Stoker, coincides with ideas of the land of Ireland as an entity with an appetite for blood sacrifice. Dracula is one of a number of vampire figures created by Irish writers and we will see how Irish horror writing is produced against a cultural folklore replete in blood thirsty creatures. This will bring us into the realm of Irish fairy and through exploration of the origin of Irish fairy, in ancient Irish myth and legend, we will discover the supernatural creatures hovering behind Ireland's celebrated generation of the vampire.
Who this course is for:
- Fairy fans and vamire enthusiasts.
- Anyone interested in Ireland, its land and culture.
Instructor
![Bernadette McCarthy](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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- 116 Students
- 2 Courses
Dr. Bernadette McCarthy is a specialist in Irish literature and in Irish myth and legend. She lives in Ireland where she was awarded her Phd by University College Cork. She teaches a course on Irish Fairies and Irish mythology at the University of Limerick Summer school and has taught a number of courses on Irish culture, literature and the arts in University College Cork and in her own West Cork College. Dr. McCarthy has published on William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf and continues her research and writing from her home in Baltimore in the South West of Ireland.