English 150

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Eng. 150: Irish Literature, Culture, Politics

Prof. Enda Duffy

Plays. Novels. Some Key Readings:

John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World :

Sean O’Casey, The Plough and the Stars :

(Access through Proquest, vis UCSB Davidson Library)

James Joyce, Ulysses:

I strongly recommend you buy the Vintage 1986 edition. Here is the Amazon link:

You can get it used for less than $5. Here is the cover for the best edition: (As page numbers

(As page numbers matter a lot with this book, having the right edition will be a huge help).

Buy this edition (and keep it forever)!

Ulysses, contd.:

[There is a good site called ‘Joyce Project’ but my computer warns that it is ‘Not Secure’]

Here is another:

Johttps://holybooks-lichtenbergpress.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/Ulysses-by-James-yce.pdf

Edna O’Brien, Short Stories

‘A Scandalous Woman’

‘A Rose in the Heart of New York’

‘the Shovel Kings’. New Yorker

Moya Cannon, Poems:

All of the poems we will read by Moya Cannon are here.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

https://doireannnighriofa.com/

Melatu Uchenna Okorie, This Hostel Life, Skein Books (Ireland), Virago Books (UK):

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Sally Rooney: Normal People. Please purchase this book. Here is the edition (Hogarth Reprints, paperback, or Hogarth, hardback):

Sally Rooney is also editor of The Stinging Fly:

Emigrants/Immigrants: sources :

Plus, for lots of the latest, coolest literary news from Ireland,

check this out—The Irish Literary Times:

https://www.scoop.it/topic/irish-literature?page=1