Irish Literature mind maps

Exploring Irish Literature mind maps

These community-made maps organize ideas around individual works, writers and themes. Ulysses includes branches on interior monologue and characters. Dubliners general themes brings together ideas such as innocence and experience, and freedom and imprisonment. The Paul Durcan map connects poems with subjects including family and relationships.

If you are studying a play, start with Dancing at Lughnasa: Background. Its branches on characters, themes and style offer a way into the material. You can then look at Dancing At Lughnasa Quotes for lines associated with particular characters.

Study with the branches

Read a branch, then cover it and explain the connection in your own words. Return to the map to check what you included. When you want to study an idea in sentences or test your recall, switch to notes or a quiz on the unit page.

Open a map that matches your current reading and follow a branch that interests you.