•  Spend several hours walking around your neighborhood, noting people you see and events as they occur. Later, make a map of your journey and write a story about it.

•  Read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and then write a paper about what you learn in this novel about Stephen Dedalus that helps clarify the portrait of him in Ulysses.

•  Research patterns of alcohol consumption and alcoholism in Dublin, Ireland. Using whatever statistics you can find, make a graph that shows changing levels of alcohol consumption in three different decades of the twentieth century.

•  Read Frank McCourt’s novel Angela’s Ashes and write a paper on how alcoholism affected McCourt’s family.

•  Do some research on the literary technique of stream...