Past Classes
Boo: The Art of the Ghost Story. A two-hour class exploring the history and structure of the ghost story.
Roots into Words: Reading and Writing the Ethnic Autobiography. This class will help you to write and to understand memoirs written with an eye on heritage.
Travel into words: Writing about Irish travels. Discover how a travel writer can articulate personal impressions of Ireland within its contexts as a contemporary European state and also a deeply ancient spiritual nation.
No Sweat Irish. Beginners learn how to speak the contemporary living form of one of the world’s most ancient vernacular Celtic languages.
Introduction to the Course of Irish History.  A survey class in Irish history for all levels of learners using the classic text, The Course of Irish History.
Celtic Spirituality. Discover the spiritual wisdom and heritage surrounding the sites and saints of Ireland.
Irish language literature and poetry. Deepen your appreciation and comprehension of the Irish language by reading selections from its classic and contemporary literature in both prose and poetry.
Speaking the Irish language for young learners. Ages 12-18. Young learners will learn to speak Irish in a structured yet immersive listening/speaking style.
Unlocking the Mystery of Sherlock Holmes. Explore the fiction, cultural assumptions (and blind spots!), and biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous creation in this class for readers of classic Victorian literature and/or writers of crime fiction thrillers.
Drawing Celtic Mythology. Learn how the haunting and magical gods, goddesses, heroes, magicians, and landscapes of the Celtic realms can be given creative expression and re-interpretation in a class for beginners and enthusiasts at all levels.
James Joyce and Dubliners. Learn how the genius, James Joyce (1882-1941), employed his concept of the epiphany to examine the ordinary lives of the Dublin middle class in his highly accessible and ironically observed collection of fifteen stories, Dubliners (1914).
Irish language literature and poetry. Deepen your appreciation and comprehension of the Irish language by reading selections from its classic and contemporary literature in both prose and poetry.
Speaking the Irish language for young learners. Ages 12-18. Young learners will learn to speak Irish in a structured yet immersive listening/speaking style.
Unlocking the Mystery of Sherlock Holmes. Explore the fiction, cultural assumptions (and blind spots!), and biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous creation in this class for readers of classic Victorian literature and/or writers of crime fiction thrillers.
Drawing Celtic Mythology. Learn how the haunting and magical gods, goddesses, heroes, magicians, and landscapes of the Celtic realms can be given creative expression and re-interpretation in a class for beginners and enthusiasts at all levels.