Irish Literature

For a comparatively small island, Ireland has made a disproportionately large contribution to world literature in all its branches. Irish literature encompasses the Irish and English languages.

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This House Will Feed
Darkrooms
Esther Is Now Following You
Small Things Like These
Intermezzo
The Irish Goodbye
Beautiful World, Where Are You
It Should Have Been You
The Bee Sting
So Late in the Day
Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
The Elements (The Elements, #1-4)
The Rachel Incident
Nesting
Prophet Song
Evenings and Weekends
So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
Water
Dubliners
Small Things Like These
Normal People
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ulysses
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Waiting for Godot
Foster
Conversations with Friends
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
Dracula
Beautiful World, Where Are You
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The Rich Irish Literature Hit List
76 books — 32 voters
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah HarknessInTRANSigence by Dianna KennyThe Cyclops by Emerson LittlefieldPersuasion by Jane AustenEmma by Jane Austen
My Favored Reads
364 books — 87 voters

Macbeth by William ShakespeareHamlet, Prince of Denmark by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildePygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Best British and Irish Plays
134 books — 73 voters
Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Best 1800s Historical Fiction
458 books — 284 voters

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeThe Troubles by Tim Pat CooganThe Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-SmithEarly Irish Myths and Sagas by AnonymousWar and an Irish Town by Eamonn McCann
Irish History
255 books — 35 voters


Flann O'Brien
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred ...more
Flann O'Brien

W.B. Yeats
The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and wise-men, and professors, the majority still are adverse to sitting down to dine thirteen at a table, or being helped to salt, or walking under a ladder, of seeing a single magpie flirting his chequered tale. There are, of course, children of light who have set their faces against all this, although even a ...more
William Butler Yeats

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