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  Listen to Seamus Heaney read his poem "Bogland"

RECOMMENDED READING
for students registering for ENGL 5000
and ENGL 5550

Colmcille (6th century?)
(commentary by Mary Robinson, President of the Irish Republic, "In the Footsteps of Columba")

Cúchulainn's Warp-Spasm (12th century)
(from The Tain, with introduction and summary,
translated by Thomas Kinsella)

A Present of Butter
(by Tadhg Dall O'Huiginn)

My Son, Forsake Your Art
(Mahon O'Heffernan,
translated by Maire Cruise O'Brien)

The Midnight Court (1780)
(Brian Merriman,
translated by J. Noel Fahey)

Cashel of Munster
(translated by Sir Samuel Ferguson)

The County of Mayo
(translated by George Fox)

JOHN M. SYNGE
"The Curse"
"Danny"
"Queens"

W. B. YEATS
"Down by the Sally
Gardens"
"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"

SEAMUS HEANEY
(biography)
"Bogland"
"Casualty"
from "Clearances 3"
from "Clearances 5"
"Lightenings viii"
"Personal Helicon"
"The Tollund Man"
"Traditions"

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

REQUIRED READINGS
for students registering for ENGL 5000
and ENGL 5550

"The Mystery"
Amergin
[Ireland's First Poem]
translated by Douglas Hyde

"Pangur Ban"
anonymous
translations by Frank O'Connor
and Eavan Boland

"The Fairies"
William Allingham
(1824-1889)

"Ode"
["We are the music makers . . ."]
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
(1844-1881)

"A Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)

"To L.L."
["Could we dig up this long-buried treasure . . ."]
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)

"The Fisherman"
William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939)

"The Second Coming"
William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939)

"The Ballad of Father Gilligan"
William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939)

"Never Give All the Heart"
William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939)

"What Then?"
William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939)

"To a May Baby"
Winifred M. Letts
(1882-1972)

"Father and Son"
F. R. Higgins
(1896-1941)

"The Sunlight on the Garden"
Louis MacNeice
(1907-1963)

"Bagpipe Music"
Louis MacNeice
(1907-1963)

"Biddy Mulligan"
Seamus Kavanaugh

"Dublin Made Me"
Donagh MacDonagh
(1912-1968)

"The Boys of Barr Na Sraide"
Sigerson Clifford
(1913-1984)

"Christy Brown Came to Town"
Richard Harris
(1930-2002)

"First Annual Report"
Gerry Corr
(1933-)

"God's Laughter"
Brendan Kennelly
( 1936-)

"Poem from a Three Year Old"
Brendan Kennelly
( 1936-)

"The Rain Stick"
Seamus Heaney
(1939-)

"Requiem for the Croppies"
Seamus Heaney
(1939-)

"All of These People"
Michael Longley
(1939-)

"Everything Is Going to Be All Right"
Derek Mahon
(1941-)

"Swineherd"
Eilean Ni Chuilleanan
(1942)

"Death of an Irishwoman"
Michael Hartnett
(1944-1999)

"Anseo"
Paul Muldoon
(1951-)

"Someone"
Dennis O'Driscoll
(1954-)

"Peter Street"
   Peter Sirr
(1960-)

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