This collection of essays examines core authors and texts. Written by scholars from a range of Irish third-level institutions, these essays provide introductions to less familiar authors and open up critical readings of established texts.
Poetry: Conrad Brunstrom on Philip Larkin; Lucy Collins on Eavan Boland; Peter Denman on Elizabeth Bishop and Michael Longley; John Devitt on Seamus Heaney. Fiction: Joseph Cleary on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Richard Hayes on Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark; Margaret Kelleher on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; Emer Nolan on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Drama: Patrick Burke on Brian Friel; Brian Cosgrove on King Lear; Paul Hollywood on Hamlet. Film: Gerardine Meaney on film narrative; Christopher Morash on literature and film; Sarah Smith on Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot.
