Giolla Mochuda Mor Ó Caiside & Tomas Ó Caisaide The earliest renowned Cassidy poet is Giolla Mochuda Mor Ó Caiside (also identified as Gilla Mo Dutu Ua Casaide). In 1147, Ó Caiside composed Banshenchas (The Lore of Woman), which is a list of famous married women in ancient world and Irish history and literatureiterature-medieval-to-17th-century/. (nb [...]
Brian Merriman 1749?–?1805 ‘Professor Seán Ó Tuama says of Merriman’s poem: The Midnight Court is undoubtedly one of the greatest comic works of literature, and certainly the greatest comic poem ever written in Ireland.‘ (Repossessions: Selected Essays on the Irish Literary Heritage, 1995). Another critic, Professor Declan Kiberd, in Irish Classics, 2000, says: ‘Merriman’s genius [...]
Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Irish Literature This resource is maintained and edited by Julia M. Wright with the generous support of CFI and SSHRC as well as various research assistants (2002-present): James Allard, Lisa Butler, Holly Crumpton, Jeremy DeVito, Susan Henry, Meagan Timney, and Sylvia Terzian. Julia M. Wright, Dalehouse University Castle Rackrent An Hibernian [...]
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin. He moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties and became a prominent member of the Fabian Society, for which he composed many pamphlets. He began his literary career as a [...]
Padraic Colum Bhí athair Pádraic Colum ina mháistir ar theach na mBocht i Longfort. Is ann a rugadh Pádraic ar 8ú Nollaig 1881 – file, úrscéalaí, bailitheoir béaloideasa. Biographical note in Irish. Also includes four poems, including She Moves Through the Fair, and Irish Country Speech, an extract taken from Colum’s travelogue, The Road Round [...]
Pádraig Pearse Patrick Henry Pearse (1879–1916) was a teacher, barrister, poet, and writer who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. Pearse wrote stories and poems in both Irish and English, his best-known English poem being The Wayfarer. He also penned several allegorical plays in the Irish language, including The King, [...]
James HanleyBorn in Dublin in 1901, James Hanley grew up in Liverpool. Often described as a working class novelist, he experienced life working on the seas first hand, beginning at a young age. He died in 1985. Northern Illinois University holds a collection of manuscripts (some unpublished) and most editions of the books by James [...]
Eilís Dillon These links are presented by the literary estate of Eilís Dillon (1920-1994) one of Ireland’s most distinguished writers. To explore her work, you can focus on her novels, her detective stories and her books for young people. There are education and research resources, a biographical page, quotations from her many excellent reviews, and [...]
Walt Whitman & the Irish On May 27, 1846, just four days short of his twenty-seventh birthday, the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, Walter Whitman as he was known then, informed his readers that “‘Valentine M’Clutchy, the Irish Agent’… a well-printed book … from the pen of one of the most popular Irish writers, the [...]