EF/ WK English 2010, The Green Island : Literature from and about Ireland

Update: 22.02.2010

Ahern, Cecelia

P.S. I Love You (2004)

Banville, John

Eclipse (2000)

The Sea (2005), Booker Prize

Barry, Sebastian

The Secret Scripture (2008), Costa Book Awards

A Long Way Away (2005)

The Steward of Christendom (play 1995)

Binchy, Maeve

The Lilac Bus (1984)

Circle of Friends (1990)

Beckett, Samuel

Watt (1944)

plays:

Waiting for Godot (1955)

All that Fall (1957)

Endgame (1958)

Behan, Brendan

The Quare Fellow (1956, play)

The Hostage (1958, play)

Borstal Boy (1958)

Brown, Christy

My Left Foot (1954)

Down All the Days (1958)

Carson, Paul

Scalpel (1997)

Cold Steel (1998)

Devlin, Anne

The Way-Paver (1986, short stories)

Ourselves Alone (1986, a collection of plays)

Deane, Seamus

Reading in the Dark (1996)

Delaney, Frank

Ireland: A Novel (2005)

Donoghue, Emma

Stir-Fry (1994)

Doyle, Mogue

Dancing With Minnie the Twig (2002)

Doyle, Roddy

‘The Barrytown Trilogy’:

*        The Commitments (1987)

*        The Snapper (1990)

*        The Van (1991)

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993), Booker Prize

The Woman Who Walked into Doors (1996)

A Star Called Henry (1999)

Maria Edgeworth

Castle Rackrent - 1800 (novel)

Anne Enright

The Gathering (2007), Booker Prize

Friel, Brian

plays:

Philadelphia Here I Come (1964)

The Freedom of the City (1973)

Translations (1981)

Dancing at  Lughnasa (1990)

Wonderful Tennessee (1993)

Lady Gregory, Augusta

short plays:

The Rising of the Moon (1904)

The Workhouse Ward (1908)

Hamilton, Hugo

The Speckled People (2003)

Heaney, Seamus

poetry

Heneghan, James

Torn Away (1994)

Jordan, Neil

The Past (1980)

Joyce, James

Dubliners (1913, short stories)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Ulysses (1922)

Kavanagh, Patrick

The Green Fool (1938)

poetry

Keane, John Brendan

plays:  Sive (1959)

 The Field (1965)

Keenan, Brian

An Evil Cradling (1992)

Turlough (2000)

Mathews, Aidan

Adventures in a Bathyscope (1988, short stories)

Lingard, Joan

The Twelfth Day of July (1970)

Across the Barricades (1972)

McCabe, Patrick

The Butcher Boy (1992)

Breakfast on Pluto (1998)

Winterwood (2007)

McCann, Colum

Everything in this Country Must (2000, short stories)

Let the Great World Spin (2009), National Book Award

McCourt, Frank

Angela’s Ashes (1996), Pulitzer Prize

Tis (1998)

McCourt, Malachy

History of Ireland (2004)

McDonagh, Martin

plays:

The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1996)

A Skull in Connemara (1997)

The Lonesome West (1997), ( the ‘Leenane Trilogy’)

McGahern, John

The Barracks (1963)

The Dark (1965)

Amongst Women (1990)

That They May Face the Rising Sun (2002)

MacLaverty, Bernard

Lamb (1980)

Cal (1983)

Walking the Dog and Other Stories (1994)

Grace Notes (1997)

The Anatomy School (2001)

McNamee, Eoin

The Ultras (2004)

McPherson, Conor

The Weir ( 1997)

Moncrieff, Sean

Dublin (2001)

Moore, Brian

Lies of Silence (1990)

Muldoon, Paul

poetry

Murdoch, Iris

The Unicorn (1963)

The Sea, the Sea (1978) Booker Prize

Murphy, Tom

Famine (1968, play)

O’Brien, Edna

‘The Country Girls Trilogy’:

*        The Country Girls (1960)

*        Girl with Green Eyes (1962)

*        Girls In Their Married Bliss (1964)

I Hardly Knew You (1977)

House of Splendid Isolation (1994)

James Joyce (1999, biography)

Into the Forest (2002)

O’Casey, Sean

plays:

Shadow of a Gunman

Juno and the Paycock (1925)

The Plough and the Stars (1926)

The Silver Tassie (1928)

Bedtime Story (1951)

O’Connor, Frank

An Only Child (1958)

My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories (ed. 1963)

O’Connor, Joseph

Cowboys and Indians (1991)

The Salesman (1996)

Yeats Is Dead (2001, ed. Joseph O’Connor)

Star of the Sea (2002)

O’Connor, Rory

Gander at the Gate (2000, childhood memoir)

O’Faolain, Julia

No Country for Young Men (1980)

O’Faolain, Nuala

Are You Somebody ? - The Life and Times of Nuala O’Faolain (1996)

My Dream of You (2000)

O’Faolain, Sean

And Again (1979)

O’Flaherty, Liam

The Informer (1925)

Famine (1937)

The Pedlar’s Revenge and Other Stories (ed. 1976)

O’Keeffe, Patrick

The Hill Road (2005) short stories

O’Riordan, Kate

The Memory Stones (2003)

O’Sullivan, Mark

White Lies (1997)

Shaw, George Bernard

plays:

Plays Pleasant (1898)

Plays Unpleasant  (1898)

John Bull’s Other Island (1904)

Pygmalion (1913/1916)

Stoker, Bram

Dracula (1897)

Sweeney, Eamonn

Waiting for the Healer (1997)

The Photograph (2000)

Synge, John Millington

plays:

The Shadow of the Glen (1903)

Riders to the Sea (1904)

The Playboy of the Western World (1907)

Toibin, Colm

The Blackwater Lightship (1999)

Trevor, William

Fools of Fortune (1983)

After Rain (1996, short stories)

Felicia’s Journey (1994)

The Hill Bachelors (2001, short stories)

The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)

Uris, Leon

Trinity (1976)

Walsh, Enda

Disco Pigs (1996, play)

Bedbound / Misterman (2001, plays)

Walsh, John

The Fallen Angels (1999)

Wilde, Oscar

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/91)

plays:

Salomé (1993/94)

The Importance of Being Earnest (1899)

An Ideal Husband (1899)

Yeats, William Butler

Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland (ed.by W.B. Yeats, 1888, 1892, 1899)

Cathleen Ni Hoolihan (1902, play)

On Baile’s Strand (1903, play)

Purgatory (1938, play)

poetry