An Irish literature reader : poetry, prose, drama

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Editors Maureen O'Rourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey thirteen centuries of Irish literature, including Old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish folksongs, and drama. For each author the editors provide a biographical sketch, a brief discussion of how his or her selections relate to a larger...

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Other Authors: Murphy, Maureen O'Rourke (Editor), MacKillop, James (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Irish literature > Translations into English.
English literature > Irish authors.
18.05 English literature.
Literatur
Irisk litteraturhistoria.
Anthologie.
Ireland > Literary collections.
Ireland.
Irland
Irish literature.
Translations into English.
Literature.
Literary collections.
Anthologies (form)
Belles-lettres (texts)
Table of Contents:
  • Eighth century to the Irish literary renaissance. Early and medieval Irish literature. Old Irish prose
  • Old Irish poetry
  • Three ninth century poems for students and pilgrims
  • From the tenth or eleventh century
  • Columcilles poems
  • Early modern Irish poetry. Anonymous
  • Séathrún Céitinn (Geoffrey Keating) (1500-c. 1644)
  • Thomas Flavell (fl. late seventeenth century)
  • Donnchadh Rua Mac Conmara (1715-1810)
  • Aogán ÓRathaille (c. 1675-1729)
  • Eoghan Rua ÓSuileabháin (1748-1784)
  • Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill (Eileen O'Connell) (c. 1770)
  • Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (Brian Merriman) (1749?-1805)
  • Irish folk songs. Nineteenth century prose. Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)
  • William Carleton (1794-1869)
  • Nineteenth century poetry. Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
  • Anthony Raftery (1784-1835)
  • James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)
  • Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886)
  • Thomas Davis (1814-1845)
  • The Irish literary renaissance. Douglas Hyde (1860-1949)
  • Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852-1932)
  • Lyric voices of the Irish renaissance. T. W. Rolleston (1857-1920)
  • Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861-1931)
  • George W. Russell (AE) (1867-1935)
  • Padraic Colum (1881-1972)
  • Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
  • John Millington Synge (1871-1909). George Moore (1852-1933). Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957). Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928). James Stephens (1880[82?]-1950). The poets of 1916. P. H. Pearse (1879-1916)
  • Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
  • Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916)
  • Ireland since independence. Daniel Corkery (1878-1964). Seán O'Faoláin (1900-1991). Frank O'Connor (1903-1966). Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984). Poets from the post-independence generation. F. R. Higgins (1896-1941)
  • Austin Clarke (1896-1974)
  • John Hewitt (1907-1987)
  • Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967). Flann O'Brien (1911-1966). Mary Lavin (1912-1996). Contemporary poets in Irish and English. Máirtín Ó Direáin (1910-1988)
  • Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916-1977)
  • Máire Mhac an tSaoi (b. 1922)
  • Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928)
  • John Montague (b. 1929)
  • Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
  • Michael Longley (b. 1939)
  • Derek Mahon (b. 1941)
  • Caitlín Maude (1941-1982)
  • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (b. 1942)
  • Eavan Boland (b. 1944)
  • Ciarán Carson (b. 1948)
  • Medbh McGuckian (b. 1950)
  • Peter Fallon (b. 1951)
  • Paul Muldoon (b. 1951)
  • Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (b. 1952)
  • Paula Meehan (b. 1955)
  • Moya Cannon (b. 1956)
  • Cathal Ó Searcaigh (b. 1956)
  • Greg Delanty (b. 1958)
  • Late twentieth century fiction and drama. William Trevor (b. 1928). John McGahern (b. 1934-2006). Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (b. 1954). Tom/Thomas Murphy (b. 1935).

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