A taste of Irish Literature ...

A Mhagaidh na bi tursach, A ruin, ged gheibhinn bas Co am fear am measg an 'tsluaigh. A mhaireas buan gu brath ? Chan eil sinn uile ach air chuairt, Mar dhithein buaile fas, Bheir siantannan na bliahna sios 'S nach tog a' ghrian an aird - From : 'An eala bhan' - Written by 'Domhnall Ruadh Choruna' whilst In the trenches, first world war.
Maggie, don't be sad, Love, if I should die - Who among men endures eternally ? We are all only on a journey, like flowers in the deserted cattle fold, that the year's wind and rain will bring down and that the sun cannot raise. - from : 'The White Swan' - Written by 'Domhnall Ruadh Choruna' whilst In the trenches, first world war.



Click on the image for the complete work of William Butler Yeats


Ireland has 4 nobelprizewinners in literature : W.B. Yeats in 1923,
G.B. Shaw in 1925, Samuel Beckett in 1969 and Seamus Heany in 1995
(with links to their work, ...)


James Joyce is another great Irish writer. The Brazen Head is a site with all kind of Joyce-stuff.

THIS SITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION - LAST UPDATE 25/07/2001


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