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 ...

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 ...

Djamel White is being called a powerful new voice in Irish literature. His debut novel, All Them Dogs, takes a look inside the crime underworld of west Dublin, focusing on a lost young man looking ...

One hundred years ago this month William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was awarded for “his always inspired poetry, which in highly artistic form gives expression to the ...

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 ...

University College Cork's online Masters program in Gaelic Literature. The wealth of Gaelic literature and what it can teach us about Ireland is almost second to none and there's now no excuse not to ...

Around 1912, Michael Patrick Pearson’s grandfather, an Irish immigrant, abruptly abandoned his wife, infant daughter and three stepsons in the South Bronx, and disappeared. That act reverberated ...

Charleen Hurtubise’s novel Saoirse, her U.S. debut, is set in the wilds of Donegal in 1999, where artist Saoirse (a name that means freedom in the Irish language) lives an outwardly idyllic life. But ...

IRISH writer Jennifer Johnston, known for novel How Many Miles to Babylon?, has died aged 95. The novelist and playwright passed away on Tuesday night at a nursing home in Dun Laoghaire. Jennifer’s ...

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