The story of Irish writing is followed, beginning with Swift, and working through playwrights Synge and OCasey to Beckett and Friel; in novels, from Maria Edgeworth, through Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate OBrien, Flann OBrien to contemporaries Julia OFaolain and Roddy Doyle; from nineteenth-century poetry through Yeats to Paul Durcan.
The story of Irish writing is followed, beginning with Swift, and working through playwrights Synge and OCasey to Beckett and Friel; in novels, from Maria Edgeworth, through Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate OBrien, Flann OBrien to contemporaries Julia OFaolain and Roddy Doyle; from nineteenth-century poetry through Yeats to Paul Durcan.