Irish Literary Sources and Resources

Background Texts

• The Archaeology of Ancient Ireland
• The Geography of Ancient Ireland
• The Geology of Ancient Ireland

Ancient Irish Literature

• On Reading Ancient Literature: The Text and the Context
• "The Fate of the Children of Lir" (trans. Lady Gregory)
• "Oisin and Patrick" (trans. Lady Gregory)
• Early Irish Lyric Poetry (trans. Kuno Meyer)

Irish Drama

• John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea

Irish Prose Fiction

• John Banim, The Nowlans
• William Carleton, The Hedge School
• Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent
• Gerald Griffin, The Collegians
• James Joyce, "The Dead"
• Emily Lawless, Grania, The Story of an Island