Lecture 1. Out of Ireland
Lecture 2. Oscar Wilde: critic as artist, artist as critic
Lecture 3. Oscar Wilde: social comedian
Lecture 4. The life of Sebastian Melmoth
Lecture 5. W.B. Yeats: from the Celtic twilight
Lecture 6. W.B. Yeats: the national poet
Lecture 7. W.B. Yeats: the triumph of failure
Lecture 8. James Joyce: The Dublin writer
Lecture 9. James Joyce: The European writer
Lecture 10. James Joyce: The universal writer
Lecture 11. Samuel Beckett: the absurdist
Lecture 12. Beckett and the novel
Lecture 13. Samuel Beckett: "Fail again. Fail better"
Lecture 14. Tradition and its discontents.
