“Nobody writes like the Irish,” my father, a native Dubliner, says whenever we discuss literature. Naming great Irish writers of the past and present--Joyce, Yeats, Beckett, Synge, Heaney--he ...

To complete the M.A. in Irish Literature and Culture, students take 30 credit hours (ten courses) as follows: The final component of the M.A. is the Oral Examination. The exam usually lasts for an ...

Dublin has been home to and produced a disproportionate number of the English-speaking world's most important writers, poets and playwrights (Credit: John Piekos/Getty Images) Christopher Morash, ...

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is to receive the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature 2015. The Award will be presented at the Irish PEN annual dinner on Friday, February 20th, at the ...

Now that Yeats is dead six years and Æ nine, we can perhaps turn to Irish literature for an appraisal of its post-Revolutionary phase. Those two men, already grown to fame before the Revolution, so ...

An electronic resource showcasing the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Irish writing has been launched by University College Dublin’s School of English, Drama and Film. Our project, the Digital ...

Sometimes the hardest thing to buy for a bookworm is a regular novel, biography or history book. Here's a selection of ...

People visit Ireland for various reasons: the beautiful landscapes; family or heritage; the Guinness! But another reason is because of a love of Irish literature leads you to seek out the places that ...

Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 57, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Eighth Sino-American Symposium in Comparative and World Literature (2020), pp. 485-496 (12 pages ...