Eng. 150: Irish Literature, Culture, Politics Prof. Enda Duffy

Eng. 150: Irish Literature, Culture, Politics

 

Prof. Enda Duffy

 

 

Plays. Novels. Some Key Readings:

 

 

John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World :

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1240/1240-h/1240-h.htm

 

 

Sean O’Casey, The Plough and the Stars :

https://www-proquest-com.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:9443/docview/2138581517/Z000839145

 

(Access through Proquest, vis UCSB Davidson Library)

 

James Joyce, Ulysses:

 

I strongly recommend you buy the Vintage 1986 edition. Here is the Amazon link:

 

https://www.amazon.com/James-Joyce-Ulysses-Gabler-Paperback/dp/B01FODC5BE/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=ulysses&qid=1616357570&s=books&sr=1-10

You can get it used for less than $5. Here is the cover for the best edition: (As page numbers

 

 

(As page numbers matter a lot with this book, having the right edition will be a huge help).

 

Buy this edition (and keep it forever)!

 

Ulysses, contd.:

 

[There is a good site called ‘Joyce Project’ but my computer warns that it is ‘Not Secure’]

 

Here is another:

 

Johttps://holybooks-lichtenbergpress.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/Ulysses-by-James-yce.pdf

 

 

Edna O’Brien, Short Stories

 

‘A Scandalous Woman’

‘A Rose in the Heart of New York’

‘the Shovel Kings’. New Yorker

 

Moya Cannon, Poems:

 

https://moyacannon.ie/

 

All of the poems we will read by Moya Cannon are here.

 

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

 

https://doireannnighriofa.com/

 

https://www.versopolis-poetry.com/poet/205/doireann-ni-ghriofa

 

 

 

Melatu Uchenna Okorie, This Hostel Life, Skein Books (Ireland), Virago Books (UK):

https://www.virago.co.uk/imprint/lbbg/virago/page/virago-books/

 

 

 

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

 

https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Waiting-for-Godot.pdf

 

 

Sally Rooney: Normal People. Please purchase this book. Here is the edition (Hogarth Reprints, paperback, or Hogarth, hardback):

 

 

 

Sally Rooney is also editor of The Stinging Fly:

https://stingingfly.org/

 

 

Emigrants/Immigrants: sources :

 

https://www.theirishstory.com/2018/11/17/the-irish-girl-and-the-american-letter-irish-immigrants-in-19th-century-america/

 

 

Plus, for lots of the latest, coolest literary news from Ireland,

check this out—The Irish Literary Times:

 

https://www.scoop.it/topic/irish-literature?page=1