Other
Cassidy Clan: Irish Poetry & the Cassidy Contribution
Discussion and explanation of the importance of poetry in Ireland and the importance of Irish literature. Discusses the Irish masterpiece "Banshenchas" and provides a link to the actual text.
Other
Critical Survey: Irish Poetic Modernisms a Reappraisal
This scholarly article attempts to place the Irish Literary Revival within the context of "European and American modernism - their shared preoccupation with mysticism, symbolism, millenarianism, and anti-modernization."
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Old James, the Irish Pedlar
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication of Old James, the Irish Pedlar by Mary B. Tuckey, a fiction storybook told in verse for children.
Digital History
Digital History: American Ethnic Literature
Educated white men weren't the only ones contributing to a truly American literature. Read about the literature written by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Irish Americans. All added to the melting pot of...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Modern Poet: Seamus Heaney
This lesson focuses on the Irish poet Seamus Heaney; it features links to Heaney's biography, his poem "Blackberry Picking," and an analysis of that poem. It also explains what to look for when reading and analyzing a poem and this poem...
Other
The Thomas Mac Greevy Archive
Interdisciplinary research project that explores the life, writings, and relationships of the Irish poet and critic, Thomas MacGreevy (1893-1967).
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Voice of Nationalism: One Hundred Years of Irish Theater
The emphasis is on the beginnings of the Abbey Theater. The selection discusses Yeats' contributions to the establishment of the theater, some of the movements and more current writers under what is called the "Celtic Revival."
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
This is the full text of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, a prose satire by this Irish writer and clergyman that is both a satire on human nature and the "travelers' tales" literary subgenre.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This early 1900's work was written by Kate Douglas Wiggin, the author famously known for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
The English Teacher
The English Teacher: Description in Dracula
Extracts from Bram Stoker's Dracula reveak his powers of description that help to establish a sense of "versimilitude" or of being "true to life." It is important to establish verisimilitude in the beginning pages of a novel as this...
BBC
Bbc History: Historic Figures: Oscar Wilde (1854 1900)
Brief biography of Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and critic Oscar Wilde.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A True Story of Long Ago by Annette Lyster
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book A True Story of Long Ago by Annette Lyster (c1894), an illustrated children's novel about the Irish Rebellion of '98.
Other
The Irish Short Story
This is more of a bibliographical reference of names of writers and resources that can be used.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Jonathan Swift
Find out more about the life and work of Jonathan Swift when you explore this site. This resource provides links to lesson plans and other activities for some of his books.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Poetry of Jonathan Swift
Full text, from the University of Toronto, of nine of Swift's most famous poems, including "Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers."
Other
Univ. De Valencia: Chronology of Jonathan Swift's Life
Detailed timeline of important moments in the author's life, as well as significant historical events. Includes Whig and Tory pages, and info about the Pope and the Anglican Church.
A&E Television
Biography: Sean O'casey (1880 1964)
This resource offers a brief biographical sketch of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: James Joyce: Dubliners, Complete Text
This site has the complete text of James Joyce's collection of short stories, "Dubliners."
Other
Creighton University: James Joyce: The Dead
This site has the complete text of James Joyce's short story, "The Dead."
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
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.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Ulysses by James Joyce
James Joyce's famous novel is available here in multiple digital formats.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Dubliners
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.
Other
James Joyce's Dubliners: An Introduction by Wallace Gray
Detailed introduction to the collection of short stories. Includes many direct references to the individual stories in the collection.
The English Teacher
Teacher2b.com: Dracula Lesson Plans
This series of lesson plans for teaching Bram Stoker's Dracula are broken into chapter segments and include many interesting and creative ways to teach this novel.