Reading List for Fall and Winter Quarters

 

FALL QUARTER

The Táin (Thomas Kinsella)
The Cultural Conquest of Ireland (Kevin Collins) – on reserve
The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland (Roy Foster), ch.1-5
The World of the Celts (Simon James)
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History (James Leyburn), I and II
The Red Haired Girl from the Bog (Patricia Monaghan)
Paddy’s Lament (Thomas Gallagher)
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (ed. by Richard J. Finneran)
Robert Burns: Selected Poems (Penguin edition)
Three Dublin Plays (Seán O’Casey)
Dubliners (James Joyce)

WINTER QUARTER

The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland (R.F. Foster), ch. 6
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History (James Leyburn), pt.III
Banished Children of Eve (Peter Quinn)
Irish America: Coming Into Clover (Maureen Dezell)
Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South (Grady McWhiney)
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (David Hackett-Fischer) – on reserve
Making Sense of the Troubles: the Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland (David McKittrick)
Postnationalist Ireland (Richard Kearney) – on reserve
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 (Seamus Heaney)
An Origin Like Water - Collected Poems 1967-1987 (Eavan Boland)