Irish literature

Table of Contents

Introduction
The hybridity of Irish literature in English
The 18th century
- The Irishness of Anglo-Irish literature
- From Jonathan Swift to Edmund Burke
The 19th century
- Samuel Ferguson, Sydney Owenson, and Maria Edgeworth
- Roman Catholic writers
- Irish nationalism and the Great Potato Famine
- The decline of the Protestant Ascendancy
- George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde
The 20th century
- William Butler Yeats
- John Millington Synge
- James Joyce
- Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien
- Ireland and Northern Ireland
- The 1960s and beyond
The 21st century

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