Short History of Anglo-Irish Literature from Its Origins to the Present Day

Abbey Theatre Anglo-Irish artistic Austin Clarke ballads beauty Beckett Bord Fáilte Carleton Catholic Celtic centre characters Colum comedy comic Connacht contemporary Cuchulainn cultural death Deirdre dramatic dramatist Dublin early eighteenth century English Faber Famine Fenian fiction Gaelic hero heroic History of Ireland human Hyde imaginative influence interest Irish language Irish Literary Irish literary revival Irish Literary Theatre Irish literature Irish poetry Irish writers James John Joyce Katharine Tynan king Lady Gregory land landlords language later legend London lyrical Macmillan Maria Edgeworth Martin mediaeval Moore Moore's movement narrative National novel O'Casey Padraic Colum Patrick peasant period plays poetic poets political popular prose Protestant published realistic reality revival romantic satirical Sean O'Faolain sense Society sometimes songs speech Stephens stories style Swift Synge Synge's Táin theme tradition translations Ulster verse W. B. Yeats warriors written wrote Yeats Yeats's York young