Two distinguished Irish writers examine those fated souls who have lived on “The Emerald Isle” for many years. James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914) focuses on his characters struggling to find a foothold in a land, as the critic Richard Ellmann said, “weakened by useless struggles where individual initiative is paralyzed”. Brian Moore’s novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955), dramatizes the life of a profoundly sympathetic and lonely woman who symbolizes what Ireland became in the wake of World War II. The class format: Some brief lectures, lots of class give-and-take to analyze and assess the work of these two gifted writers. Make every effort to attend all the classes and become a participant, not a spectator, in our discussions.