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National Library of Ireland: The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition draws on the collections of the National Library of Ireland to tell the story of Easter week 1916, when seven Irishmen proclaimed themselves the provisional government of the Republic of Ireland and attempted to throw...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: James Joyce: Dubliners, Complete Text

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has the complete text of James Joyce's collection of short stories, "Dubliners."
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Creighton University: James Joyce: The Dead

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has the complete text of James Joyce's short story, "The Dead."
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Culture Ireland: Facts About Ireland

For Students 9th - 10th
A wide variety of facts about Ireland, such as general background, square miles, natural resources, religions, literacy rates, type of government, economic facts, exchange rates, and many other things. Some links to external sites no...
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Irelands Eye

The Curse of Cromwell

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of religious struggles during the mid-1600's in Ireland between the Catholics of Ireland and Protestants from England, led by Oliver Cromwell.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Ulysses by James Joyce

For Students 9th - 10th
James Joyce's famous novel is available here in multiple digital formats.
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Visit Ireland: Music

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of the different kinds of music in Ireland, including traditional, ancient, and work songs.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of Shaw's comedy, Arms and the Man. This, like most of Shaw's plays, gains much by being read rather than seen.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Dubliners

For Students 9th - 10th
James Joyce's 1914 collection of short stories is introduced and links are provided to the full texts of "The Dead" and other innovative classics by the author of Ulysses.
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University of Pennsylvania

George Bernard Shaw: "Misalliance"

For Students 9th - 10th
When Pennsylvania's People's Light & Theatre Company produced Shaw's "Misalliance," it printed excerpts from a number of essays on the work. Links to those works appear here and contain fascinating information about Shaw and the work.
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Irelands Eye

Ulster Will Fight

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of the religious and political struggles between what is now Ireland and Northern Ireland during the early 1900's.
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Irelands Eye

The People of Ireland

For Students 9th - 10th
This homepage offers links to many famous people from Ireland, including writers, political figures, military figures, inventors, saints, artists, and various groups of peoples that have shaped Ireland's history.
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Victorian Web

Victorian Web: Oscar Wilde an Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Victorian Web provides a neatly organized site with links to information about Oscar Wilde including biography, works, political history, social history, religion, science, genre and mode, visual arts, themes, characters, imagery,...
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National Library of Ireland: Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats

For Students 9th - 10th
This video masterclass offered through the Yeats Collection from the National Library of Ireland gives insight into William Butler Yeats and his writing of "Sailing to Byzantium." Requires a broadband internet connection. You can also...
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James Joyce's Dubliners: An Introduction by Wallace Gray

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed introduction to the collection of short stories. Includes many direct references to the individual stories in the collection.
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George Bernard Shaw/ Life and Excerpts From Works

For Students 9th - 10th
The biography may be brief, but the selections from his works are, as one is entitled, "Gems." The excerpts deal with subjects like education ("Always argue with the teacher."), love and children, marriage and divorce, and a compilation...
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New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Thomas Moore

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on the life of Thomas Moore, English poet and biographer from the 18th century. This is a very complete analysis of Moore's life. Please note that "The Catholic Encyclopedia" is a historic reference source and should be...
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Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'Greener Grass' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Greener Grass" an historical novel by Canadian author Caroline Pignat, is set in Ireland, follows a family's struggle to survive after a potato blight hits their crop and famine comes. The family has many trials along the way. This...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Richard Sheridan a Trip to Scarborough

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read the full text of Richard Sheridan's play, "A Trip to Scarborough," which is organized according to act. Also provided is a detailed introduction to the play, in which you can read about Sheridan's life and most famous plays,...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an introduction as well as the full text of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, an autobiographical novel tracing the author?s youth from his birth to his departure from Ireland.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling (Full Text)

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania website features the full text of Rudyard Kipling's novel "Kim." A brief summary of the novel is also included as well as a link to Bibiomania's main Kipling page that features other full-text works by this nineteenth...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: 19th Century: Roman Catholics & Immigration in 19th Century America

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay answers the question, "Why did so many Catholics come to the United States at this time?" The potato famine, urban industrialization, chance for a new life, are among some of the answers.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: A Modest Proposal [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 6-page PDF of the text of "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift.
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Irelands Eye

The Norman Conquest (Of Ireland)

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the Norman conquest of Ireland in 1169.

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