Irish Culture

The Irish Economy

Literature of Ireland

Irish Theatre

Program Information

Registration

Faculty Directors


Know Before You Go

Getting Around Ireland

Points of Interest

Other Useful Sites


Literary Ireland
Crossword Puzzle


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IRISH POETRY

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RECOMMENDED READING
for students registering
for ENGL 5000 and/or
ENGL 5550

SEAMUS HEANEY
(biography)

poems
"Bogland"
"Casualty"
from "Clearances 3"
from "Clearances 5"
"Lightenings viii"
"Personal Helicon"
"The Tollund Man"
"Traditions"
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FRANK O'CONNOR

short stories
"First Confession"
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BRIAN FRIEL

short stories
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JAMES JOYCE

Web resources for Joyce's Dubliners
SparkNotes to Dubliners
An Introduction to Dubliners

short stories
"The Sisters"
"An Encounter"
"Araby"
"Eveline"
"After the Race"
"The Boarding House"
"A Little Cloud"
"Counterparts"
"Clay"
"A Painful Case"
"Ivy Day in the Committee Room"
"A Mother"
"Grace"
"The Dead"

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EDNA O'BRIEN

Salon interview
Guardian interview
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LIAM O'FLAHERTY

novels
excerpt from Famine

short stories

"The Reaping Race"
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JAMES PLUNKETT

short stories

"Janey Mary"
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JOHN M. SYNGE
poems
"The Curse"
"Danny"
"Queens"

plays
Christy's monologue from Playboy of the Western World

Riders to the Sea

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W. B. YEATS

poems
"Easter 1916"
"The Harp of Aengus"
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
"Politics"
"The Stolen Child"
"Swift's Epitaph"
"The Tower"
"When You Are Old"
"The Wild Swans at Coole"

Armstrong Atlantic State University
Irish Links

Study Abroad in Ireland:
Economics & Literature
24 May - 9 June 2006

Irish Literature

COURSE WEB SITES FOR
ENGLISH MAJORS:


ENGL 4700 Advanced Composition
updated June 26, June 30, and July 4, 2006
There will be no additional major updates to the
Advanced Composition site until next semester.
Stay in touch through e-mail.

ENGL 4900 Independent Study Pages
updated July 1-2 and July 4, 2006
Last major update is scheduled for July 6.


ENGL 5550 Contemporary Literature
updated June 30, 2006, July 2, and July 4, 2006
There will be no additional major updates to the

Contemporary Literature site until next semester.
Stay in touch through e-mail.



RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND
READINGS:


POETRY READING LIST

DRAMA READING LIST
Riders to the Sea


SHORT FICTION
READING LIST



For such a comparatively small country, Ireland has made a disproportionate contribution to world literature in all its branches.   The works that are best known outside the country are in English, but Irish Gaelic also has the most significant body of written literature, both ancient and recent, in any Celtic language, in addition to a strong oral tradition of legends and poetry.

The links below will introduce you to
the rich tradition of Irish literature.

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IRISH POETRY

THE BRAZEN HEAD: A JAMES JOYCE
PUBLIC HOUSE


CELT

FENIAN CYCLE

DRACULA'S HOME PAGE (Bram Stoker)

IRISH POETRY

IRISH
LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND DRAMA

IRISH WRITERS' CENTRE

THE JAMES JOYCE CENTER

J.M. SYNGE

LIAM O'FLAHERTY

LITERATURE & DRAMA

POETRY IRELAND

THE SAMUEL BECKETT ONLINE RESOURCES PAGE

SEAMUS HEANEY

STUDY IRELAND: POETRY (BBC)

writeon-irishgirls.com
("The home of Irish women writers on the web")


YEATS SOCIETY SLIGO



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TENTATIVE SHORT FICTION
READING LIST
(Stories that are not online are marked by
an asterisk; copies may be collected from the front counter in Solms 211 on May 8 or any time afterwards.)

"The Lady on the Grey"*
John Collier

"Miss Gillespie and the Micks"*
Arnold Hill

"Araby"
James Joyce

"Counterparts"
James Joyce

"The Plain People of England"*
Bryan McMahon

"First Confession"
Frank O'Connor

"The Drunkard"
Frank O'Connor

"The Sniper"
Liam O'Flaherty

"Fugue"
Sean O'Faolain


"Persecution Mania"
Sean O'Faolain

"Red Hanrahan"
W. B. Yeats

"The Confirmation Suit"
Brendan Behan

"The Miraculous Revenge"
George Bernard Shaw

"The Wonderful Window"
Lord Dunsany

"Tom"*
Mary Lavin



                         


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