Samuel Beckett
Flann O’Brien
Liam O’Flaherty
Kate O’Brien
John Banville
John Montague
Seamus Heaney

Michael Longley
Derek Mahon
Mebdh McGuckian
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
Colm Toibin
Patrick McCabe

AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY appears on the webpage page assigned to many of the above authors in this tutorial website. These have been composed as the course proceeds and not in advance of teaching sessions (lectures or seminars). Some have still to be composed - so it is is quite a good idea to keep on eye on his space in case any useful new material is delivered.

The essays are hardly more than occasional reflections and are not intended to reflect lecture-room delivery in any closely-modelled way. In some instances, there is hardly more than a link to the resources on the writers in question held on the RICORSO Website [online]. Don’t be perturbed, however, since that site will supply a good deal of biography, bibliography, commentary & quotations for use by students on the course. It has incidentally supplied (or drawn up) much of the material used by mean in the teaching process.

Because of the loose format of the EIRData Website, you will find it advantageous to comb the files called linked to the buttons “Life”, “Works”, “Criticism”, “Commentary”, “Quotations”, &c. for material best suited to your own purposes - whether that be essay-writing or revision, Sessional Examinations, or pure interest and delight in the authors dealt with!

Can you think of a better way of handling this matter? Are you dissatisfied with the quantity or quality of the information available on this Module Website? Have you stern words to say about the present method? If so, let me know by writing to me at this email address.