Ireland, in literature
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Dubliners
Irish theatre
Rupture, representation, and the refashioning of identity in drama from the North of Ireland, 1969-1994
Edmund Spenser's Irish experience
W.R. Rodgers (1909-1969)
Ulysses and the metamorphosis of Stephen Dedalus
Celtic dawn
W.B. Yeats
We Irish
Island of daemons
Yeats's nations
Fictions of the Irish literary revival
Liam O'Flaherty the storyteller
The art of Brian Friel
Seamus Heaney
The living stream
Irish identity and the literary revival
Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean satire
Paul Muldoon
Theatre and the visual arts: a centenary celebration of Jack Yeats and John Synge
The Irish novel at the end of the twentieth century
Joyce and the two Irelands
Cultural contexts and literary idioms in contemporary Irish literature
W.B. Yeats and the theatre of desolate reality
Reconstructing Yeats
James Joyce
Yeats's worlds
Joyce's Dublin
The Irish renaissance
Flann O'Brien
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