English 496 - Anglo-Irish Literature
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The 1996 American Conference for Irish Studies is at
SIU Carbondale this year, during our semester.
The Final Exam
The
MidTerm
Although we focus on Yeats and Joyce, attention will also be paid to the likes of Somerville & Ross, Synge, Lady Gregory, O'Casey, Flann
O'Brien, Edna O'Brien, (but not Pat O'Brien), Beckett, Heaney, and Friel.
Some help with Irish Names.
Links to writers covered in this course:
- Irish mythology
- Irish Literature and Theatre on the Web, including the "Story of Mac Dathó's Pig."
- THE IRISH POETRY PAGE at the University of Cologne, Germany.
- W.B. Yeats
- A Yeats Chronology
- See the excerpts from W.B. Yeats and His World, by Micheal Mac Liannoir and Eavan Boland, on the Penn gopher
- A selection of Yeats's poetry.
- More Yeats
- The Yeats Society
Sligo Home Page
- A new controversy about Kathleen ni
Houlihan
- James Joyce
- One link
- James Joyce in Cyberspace
- Joyce's works, on-line
- The Brazen Head: A James
Joyce Website.
- A very
extensive Joyce bibliography, from John Rickard's seminar at Bucknell.
- Flann
O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds. Follow the links to see these
non-linear "novels" on-line at Virginia.
- Samuel
Beckett.
- 1995 Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney
- The Abbey Theatre its own self. Convert your student loans to Irish pounds, and let's all catch Aer Lingus to Dublin to see a play.
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