Irish Literature

[Hinata]

So I've been taking this Irish Literature class as part of my major. . .I've read many books and I still have one more to go. . .Here's the list:

James Joyce--Portrait of an Artist as a young man
Kate O'Brien--Land of Spices
Flann O'Brien--At Swim-Two-Birds
Samuel Beckett--Murphy
Edna O'Brien--In the Forest
Reddy Doyle--The Woman who walked into doors

I've also read several plays by Yeats, Lady Gregory, Sean O'Casey and John M Synge. Also there have been poems by Yeats and short stories by several other writers. . .Frank O'Conner and Sean O'Faolain. . .

So out of the books, I liked Land of Spices, At Swim-Two-Birds, In the Forest. I didn't like Portrait, or Murphy. . .everything else, with the exception of Frank O'Conner's "The Drunkard" has been okay. . .O'Conner's story was hillarious though and I totally loved it.

Anyone else have an opinion on these? I still have to ready Doyle. . .I'm thinking it'll be very well done if it's anything like Edna O'Brien's use of characterization!

[seamrog]

Hi.
I just wanted to ask if anybody could please tell me where in the Internet I could find books by Séamus Ó Grianna aka Máire if it's possible. The problem is that I've found several novels by him in Russian, my mother tongue, and I really liked them. But I can't find any mentioning of that author in English. Perhaps his books just were not translated from Irish?..

[Nauda Argetlamh]

Amazon sells books by Seamus o'Grianna. They have most in stock or second hand. It says in the synopsis that they are English language

Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk

Hope this helps

[heart4asia]

have never read any of the books in the op listed, but i'm so glad you posted them with your comments. gives me something to look forward to reading in the future. i'm very interested in irish literature.