• William Carleton, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry , Vol. 1 & 2 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1990).
• Marie Heaney, Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends (London: Faber 1994).
• James Joyce, Dubliners ( London : Penguin 2000) [chiefly “The Dead”].
• James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist (Dublin: Penguin 1999).
• Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes (London: Flamingo 1999).
• Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds ( London : Penguin 2000).
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals (NY: Dover 2000).
• Bram Stoker, Dracula ( London : Penguin Classics 2000).
• Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (London: Penguin Classics 1998).
• J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World ( London : Penguin 2005).
• William Trevor, The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories ( Oxford : OUP 2001).
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• Oscar Wilde, Happy Prince and Other Stories [Penguin Classics] (London: Penguin 1994) [online at www.planetmonk.com/wilde].
• W. B. Yeats, Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth , ed. Robert Welch (London: Penguin 1993).

• Deborah M. Averill, The Irish Short Story from George Moore to Frank O’Connor (Washington: CUA Press [1982)., x, 328pp.
• James Cahalan The Irish Novel (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1988).
• Anne Clune & Tess Hurson, eds., Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O’Brien (Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies 1997).
• Myles Dillon, ed., Irish Sagas [RTE Thomas Davis Lectures] (Cork & Dublin: Mercier Press 1968; rep. 1972 &c.)
• J. W. Foster, Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1974).
• Declan Kiberd, Inventing Ireland : The Literature of the Modern Nation (London: Vantage 1996).
• --, Irish Classics (London: Vantage 1996).
• Augustine Martin, The Genius of Irish Prose (Dublin: Mercier Press 1985).
• Frank O’Connor, The Lonely Voice: Studies in the Short Story ( London : Macmillan 1967).
• Dáithí O hOgáin, The Hero in Irish Folk History (1985).
• Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, Myth, Legend & Romance : An Encyclopaedia of the Irish Folk Tradition (London: Ryan 1990).
• Seán O Súilleabháin, Storytelling in Irish Tradition (Cork: Mercier Press 1973).
• Seán O Súilleabháin & R. T. Christiansen, The Types of Irish Folktale (Helsinki: Suomalinan Tiedakatemia Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1963).
• Patrick Rafroidi & Terence Brown, eds., The Irish Short Story (Gerrards Cross: Colin 1979).
• Ronald Schleifer, ed., The Genres of the Irish Literary Revival (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1980).
• Norman Vance, Irish Literature: A Social History (Oxford: Blackwell 1990).
• Robert Welch, ed., The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (Oxford: OUP 1996).
• George D. Zimmerman, The Irish Storyteller ( Dublin : Four Courts Press 2001).

 Students are invited to visit RICORSO, an Irish authors website at www.ricorso.net. The username <eng105> and and password <student> - without angle brackets! - has been set for this module.
 Once on the site, go to the alphabetical index and browse the information on your author. This includes biographical details, listings of works by and works on (primary & secondary bibliography), specimen quotations and (in some instances) whole-texts, quotations from commentary and criticism, &c.
 This website is the source of much of the material actually transmitted in the classroom on this module. RICORSO has been created by Dr. Stewart for the international Irish-studies community.