Irland

Northern Ireland især

• Report about the considerations behind the lecture on the 12th of November 2008 about “Teaching Material; How to use the film ”Some Mother’s Son ” by Terry George in the Danish Gymnasium and HF.” (Connie Nordholt)

Useful websites:

• http://www.museumoffreederry.org/index02.html
• http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/bsunday/
• http://www.birw.org/ - British Irish RIGHTS WATCH
• http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/
• http://www.patfinucanecentre.org/ - the pat finucane centre - for human rights and social change
• http://www.freederry.net/
• http://www.derrybluebadgeguide.com/
• http://www.grandorangelodge.co.uk/

Irish Dance

Irish dance is a group of traditional dance forms originating in Ireland which can broadly be divided into social dance and performance dances. Irish social dances can be divided further into céilí and set dancing.

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James Joyce

• Declan Kiberd, Ulysses and Us. The Art of Everyday Living (Faber and Faber 2009) - Declan Kiberd shows that Ulysses, far from being the epitome of elitism, was always intended as a book for the common people.
• James Joyce Centre, Dublin
• Music in the works of James Joyce
• Bloomsday 

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Frank O'Connor

• Guests of the Nation (1931) novelle

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David Park

Bibliography

• Oranges from Spain (Cape, 1990 - noveller)
• The Healing (Cape, 1994)
• The Rye Man (Cape, 1994)
• Stone Kingdoms (Phoenix House, 1996)
• The Big Snow (Bloomsbury, 2002)
• Swallowing the Sun (Bloomsbury, 2004)
• The Truth Commissioner (Bloomsbury, 2008)

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Irish Writers

• 1) Indicative Reading 
• Beckett, Samuel, Murphy (London: Picador, 1973)
• Boland, Eavan, Outside History (Manchester: Carcanet, 1990)
• Bowen, Elizabeth, The Last September (Vintage, 1998).
• Carr, Marina, Portia Coughlan (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 1996)
• Deane, Seamus, Reading in the Dark (London: Vintage, 1997)
• Harrington, John P. (ed.), Modern Irish Drama, Norton Critical Edition (London and New York: Norton, 1991)
• Heaney, Seamus, North (London: Faber, 1975)
• Joyce, James, Ulysses (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992)
• Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís, Dancers Dancing (Dublin: Headline Review, 1999)
• Synge, John Millington, The Aran Islands (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992)
• Yeats, William Butler, The Major Works, ed. Larrissy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)

2) Useful anthologies 

• Chris Agee, The New North - Contemporary Poetry from Northern Ireland (Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2008)
• Bolger, Dermot (ed.), Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction (London: Vintage, 1995)
• Bourke, Angela et al. (eds), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vols 4 and 5: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions (Cork: Cork University Press, 2003)
• Crotty, Patrick (ed.), Modern Irish Poetry (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1995)
• Deane, Seamus (ed.), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 3 vols (Derry: Field Day Publications, 1991)
• Muldoon, Paul (ed.), The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (London: Faber, 1986)
• O'Brien, Peggy (ed.), Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry 1967-2000 (Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1999)
• Ormsby, Frank (ed.), A Rage for Order. Poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Belfast: Blackstaff, 1992)
• Pierce, David (ed.), Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader (Cork: Cork University Press, 2000)

3) Selected Secondary Reading 

• Cairns, David, and Shaun Richards, Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988)
• Campbell, Matthew (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
• Cleary, Joe, and Claire Connolly (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
• Connolly, Claire (ed.), Theorizing Ireland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
• Corcoran, Neil, After Yeats and Joyce. Reading Modern Irish Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997
• Deane, Seamus, Celtic Revivals. Essays in Modern Irish Literature (London: Faber, 1985)
• Deane, Seamus, A Short History of Irish Literature (London: Hutchinson, 1986)
• Goodby, John, Irish Poetry since 1950. From Stillness into History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)
• Grene, Nicholas, The Politics of Irish Drama. Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Kenner, Hugh, A Colder Eye. The Modern Irish Writers (New York: Knopf, 1983)
• Kiberd, Declan, Inventing Ireland. The Literature of the Modern Nation (London: Vintage, 1996)
• Longley, Edna, The Living Stream. Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1994)
• Murray, Christopher, Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997)
• Peach, Linden, The Contemporary Irish Novel: Critical Readings (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
• Richards, Shaun (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)  

Kevin Barry, There are little kingdoms (2007)

This book has been one of the most rewarding and satisfying reads I have had in many years. The characters of the stories come to life in front of you thanks to the author's talent at finding that part of human nation we all share - the fraility of our own existence. The descriptions of Ireland are truly sublime. There is one story wherein a character plays pool and the way the author describes the action is just the best ever. I look forward to reading more from Kevin Barry again.

Læs mere om Kevin Barry, There are little kingdoms (2007)…

Claire Kegan, Foster (2010)

Since her first book was published in 1999, Claire Keegan has accumulated nearly a dozen prizes, and accolades from writers such as Richard Ford and Hilary Mantel. But the form she works in - the short story - has always been something of a specialist taste. Keegan, who has published two collections of stories (Antarctica and, in 2007, Walk the Blue Fields) and now one long story, Foster, has therefore not been accorded the wider recognition she deserves.

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