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Ireland is not a country of leprechauns and druids
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	A Short History of Irish Literature by Seamus Deane Buy used from: $17.70 If you want to know anything about Irish literature, start here.
	Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses [Revised and Expanded Edition] by James Joyce Buy used from: $7.74
	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $1.27
	Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01
	Amongst Women by John McGahern Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.77 Great novel about the psyche of the post-Independence generation and about gender relations.
	The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel by Colm Toibin Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $1.94
	Reading in the Dark: A Novel by Seamus Deane Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01
	The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood by Hugo Hamilton Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $1.38
	The Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $1.51 In terms of contemporary Irish literature, Doyle must be read. Also recommend A Star Called Henry, Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, and Paula Spencer.
	The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Also by McCabe, Breatfast on Pluto is worth a read.
	Eureka Street: A Novel of Ireland Like No Other by Robert McLiam Wilson Buy used from: $0.25
	Plays: "Philadelphia, Here I Come!", "The Freedom of the City", "Living Quarters", "Aristocrats", "Faith Healer", "Translations" v. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics) by Brian Friel Buy used from: $14.50 Brian Friel is perhaps the major Irish playwright since the founding of the Republic.
	Plays: "Mary and Lizzie", "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me", "Dolly West's Kitchen", "The Bird Sanctuary" v. 2 (Contemporary classics) by Frank McGuinness Buy used from: $39.91
	The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.51
	Disco Pigs and Sucking Dublin (Nick Hern Books) by Enda Walsh Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $20.98
	Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $4.32
	Poems 1968-1998 by Paul Muldoon Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $5.66
	An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987 by Eavan Boland Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $3.83
	Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2001 by Terence Brown Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $5.15
	Theorizing Ireland (Readers in Cultural Criticism) Buy new: $42.00 / Used from: $22.95
	The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, and Power by Jennifer M. Jeffers Buy new: $29.00 / Used from: $7.40
	Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA by Richard English Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $15.35
	Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by David Beresford Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $3.07
	Noisy Island: A Short History of Irish Popular Music by Gerry Smyth Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $8.41
	Beautiful Day: 40 years of Irish Rock by Sean Campbell Buy new: $42.95 / Used from: $2.89
	The Quiet Man (Collector's Edition) Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.38
	Odd Man Out Buy used from: $63.99
	The Crying Game Buy used from: $4.46
	My Left Foot (Special Edition) Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.98
	The Commitments (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $9.95
	The Best of Riverdance Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $13.15
	The Magdalene Sisters Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.38
	Michael Collins Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.76
	Intermission Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.35
	Breakfast on Pluto Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.89
	The Wind That Shakes the Barley Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.99
	Father Ted - The Holy Trilogy Buy used from: $69.90 Less academically valid, but very telling about the Ireland's relationship with the church. Also, hilarious.

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