IRISH CULTURE
Periods (Ancient-Postclassical-E Modern-19th Century-20th Century ) Verbal Arts (Language-Script-Myth-Folklore) Visual Arts (Painting-Sculpture-Architecture) Performing Arts (Dance-Music-Theatre-Cinema) Literary Works
Swift, Jonathan(1667-1745)TALE OF A TUB, A(1704)-GULLIVER’S TRAVELS(1726)- MODEST PROPOSAL, A(1729)
Congreve, William(1670-1729)DOUBLE-DEALER, THE(1693)- OLD BACHELOR, THE(1693)- LOVE FOR LOVE(1695)- WAY OF THE WORLD, THE(1700)
Steele, Sir Richard(1672-1729)SPECTATOR, THE (1711-1714)-CONSCIOUS LOVERS, THE(1722)
Farquhar, George(1677-1707)RECRUITING OFFICER, THE(1706)- BEAUX’ STRATAGEM, THE(1707)
Brooke, Henry(1703-1783) FOOL OF QUALITY, THE(1765)
Sterne, Laurence(1713-1768)TRISTRAM SHANDY(1759-1767)- SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, A(1768)-JOURNAL TO ELIZA(1904)
Goldsmith, Oliver(1728-1774)VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, THE(1766)- SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER(1773)
Burke, Edmund(1729-1797)REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE(1790)
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley(1751-1816)RIVALS, THE(1775)- SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, THE(1777)-CRITIC, THE(1779)
Edgeworth, Maria(1768-1849)CASTLE RACKRENT(1800)-BELINDA(1801)- ABSENTEE, THE(1812)
Moore, Thomas(1779-1852)IRISH MELODIES(1807-1835)- LALLA ROOKH(1817)
Maturin, Charles Robert(1780-1824)MELMOTH THE WANDERER(1820)
Carleton, William(1794-1869)EMIGRANTS OF AHADARRA, THE(1848)
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan(1814-1873)HOUSE BY THE CHURCHYARD, THE(1863)- UNCLE SILAS(1864-1865)
Stoker, Bram(1847-1912) DRACULA(1897)
Gregory, Lady Augusta(1852-1932)RISING OF THE MOON, THE(1905)
Moore, George(1852-1933)ESTHER WATERS(1894)
Wilde, Oscar(1854-1900)PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, THE(1890)-LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN(1892)-IMPORTANCE OF BEING EAMEST, THE(1895)-DE PROFUNDIS(1905)
Shaw, George Bernard(1856-1950)ARMS AND THE MAN(1894)- CANDIDA(1897)-CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA(1901)- MAN AND SUPERMAN(1903)-MAJOR BARBARA(1905)- PYGMALION(1912)-HEARTBREAK HOUSE(1919)-BACK TO METHUSELAH(1921)- SAINT JOAN(1923)
Yeats, William Butler(1865-1939)COUNTESS CATHLEEN, THE(1892)- DEIRDRE(1906)- TOWER, THE(1927)-PURGATORY(1938)
Synge, John Millington(1871-1909)RIDERS TO THE SEA(1903)-PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, THE(1907)- DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS(1910) O’Casey, Sean(1880-1964) JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK(1924)- PLOUGH AND THE STARS, THE(1926)- PURPLE DUST (1940)
Stephens, James(1880-1950)CROCK OF GOLD, THE(1912)- DEIRDRE(1923)
Joyce, James(1882-1941)DUBLINERS(1914)- PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, A(1914-1915) EXILES(1918)- ULYSSES(1922)- FINNEGANS WAKE(1939)
O’Flaherty, Liam(1896-1984)INFORMER, THE(1925)
Bowen, Elizabeth(1899-1973)HOUSE IN PARIS, THE(1935) DEATH OF THE HEART, THE(1938)- HEAT OF THE DAY, THE(1949)
O'Faoláin, Seán(1900-1991)NEST OF SIMPLE FOLK, A(1933)
Beckett, Samuel(1906-1989)MOLLOY(1951)- MALONE DIES(1951)- WAITING FOR GODOT(1952)-UNNAMABLE, THE(1953)- ALL THAT FALL(1957)- ENDGAME(1957)- KRAPP’S LAST TAPE(1958)
Friel, Brian(1929-2015)DANCING AT LUGHNASA(1990)
McCourt, Frank(1930-2009)ANGELA’S ASHES(1996)
O’Brien, Edna(1930- )COUNTRY GIRLS TRILOGY AND EPILOGUE, THE(1960-1964)
Heaney, Seamus(1939-2013)SEEING THINGS(1991)- DISTRICT AND CIRCLE(2006)
Banville, John(1945- )Revolutions Trilogy [DOCTOR COPERNICUS (1976)-KEPLER (1976)-NEWTON LETTER (1982)]- Frames Trilogy [BOOK OF EVIDENCE (1989)-GHOSTS (1993)-ATHENA (1995)]-Cleave Trilogy [ECLIPSE (2000)-SHROUD (2002)-ANCIENT LIGHT (2012)]
Cary, Joyce(1988-1957)HORSE’S MOUTH, THE(1944)
Films
Brenon,Herbert(1880-1958) DAUGHTER OF THE GODS, A(1916)- WAR BRIDES(1916)-PETER PAN(1924)-KISS FOR CINDERELLA, A(1925)-BEAU GESTE(1926)- DANCING MOTHERS(1926)
Ingram, Rex(1892-1950) FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (1921)- WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS (1923)-MARE NOSTRUM(1926)
O’connor, Pat(1943- ) CAL(1984)-MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, A(1987)-STARS AND BARS(1988)-JANUARY MAN (1989)- FOOLS OF FORTUNE(1990)- INVENTING THE ABBOTTS(1997)- DANCING AT LUGHNASA(1998)- SWEET NOVEMBER(2001)
Johnson, Hugh(1946-2015)CHILL FACTOR(1999)
Comerford, Joe(1947- )REEFER AND THE MODEL(1988)
O’sullivan, Thaddeus(1947- )NOTHING PERSONAL(1995)
Sheridan, Jim(1949- )MY LEFT FOOT(1989)-FIELD (1990)- IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER(1993)-BOXER(1997)- IN AMERICA(2002)- GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’(2005)- BROTHERS(2009)- DREAM HOUSE(2011)
Jordan, Neil(1950- ) COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984)- MONA LISA(1986)- HIGH SPIRITS(1988)-WE’RE NO ANGELS(1989)- MIRACLE (1991)- CRYING GAME (1992)-INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE(1994)-MICHAEL COLLINS(1996)- THE BUTCHER BOY(1997)- THE END OF THE AFFAIR(1999)- IN DREAMS(1999)-THE GOOD THIEF(2002)- BREAKFAST ON PLUTO(2005)- THE BRAVE ONE(2007)- ONDINE(2009)- BYZANTIUM(2012)
Murphy, Pat (1951- ) NORA(2000)
George, Terry(1952- )SOME MOTHER’S SON(1996)- HOTEL RWANDA(2004)- RESERVATION ROAD(2007)- THE PROMISE(2016)
Sheridan, Peter(1952- )BORSTAL BOY(2000)
Moore, Michael(1954- ) ROGER AND ME(1989)- THE BIG ONE(1997)- FAHRENHEIT 9/11(2004)-SICKO(2007)- CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY(2009)- WHERE TO INVADE NEXT(2015)- FAHRENHEIT 11/9(2018)
Barron, Steve(1956- )TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES(1990)- CONEHEADS(1993)- THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO(1996)
Hamm, Nick(1957- ) TALK OF ANGELS(1998)- THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU(1998)- GODSEND(2004)
Stembridge, Gérard(1958- )ABOUT ADAM(2001)
Walsh, Aisling(1958- )MAUDIE(2016)
Deasy, Frank(1959-2009)COURIER (1988)
Branagh, Kenneth(1960- )HENRY V(1989)- DEAD AGAIN(1991)- PETER’S FRIENDS(1992)- MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING(1993)- MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN(1994)- A MIDWINTER’S TALE; IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER(1995)- HAMLET(1996)- LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST(2000)- SLEUTH(2007)- THOR(2011)- JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT(2014)-CINDERELLA(2015)-MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS(2017)
Lowney, Declan(1960- )TIME WILL TEIL(1992)
McGuckian, Mary(1963- )THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY(2004)
Breathnach, Paddy(1964- )I WENT DOWN(1997)- BLOW DRY(2001)
Abrahamson, Lenny(1966- )FRANK(2014)- ROOM(2015)- THE LITTLE STRANGER(2018)
Kerr, David (1967- )JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN(2018)
McDonagh, John M.(1967- )THE GUARD(2011)- CALVARY(2014)
O’donnell, Damien(1967- )EAST IS EAST(1999)- RORY O’SHEA WAS HERE(2004)
Crowley, John(1969- )INTERMISSION(2004)- IS ANYBODY THERE?(2009)- CLOSED CIRCUIT(2013)- BROOKLYN(2015)
Joyce, Maurice(1969- )DOUG’S FIRST MOVIE(1999)
Dudi Appleton(1969- )THE MOST FERTILE MAN IN IRELAND(1999)
McDonagh, Martin(1970- )IN BRUGES(2008)- SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS(2012)- THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI(2017)
Moore, John(1970- )BEHIND ENEMY LINES(2001)- FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX(2004)- THE OMEN(2006)- MAX PAYNE(2008)- A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD(2013)
Mcpherson, Conor(1971- )SALTWATER(1999)- THE ECLIPSE(2009)
Twomey, Nora(1971- )THE SECRET OF KELLS(2009)- THE BREADWINNER(2017)
Carney, John(1972- )ONCE(2007)- BEGIN AGAIN(2013)- SING STREET(2016)
Townsend, Stuart(1972- )BATTLE IN SEATTLE(2007)
McQuaid, Glenn(1973- )V/H/S(2012)
Sheridan, Kristen(1976- )AUGUST RUSH(2007)
Moore, Tomm(1977- ) THE SECRET OF KELLS(2009)
Foy, Ciaran(1979- )CITADEL(2012)- SINISTER 2(2015)
Shore, Gary(1981- )DRACULA UNTOLD(2014)
Avis, Meiert FAR FROM HOME(1989)
Daly, Lance KISSES(2008)
McKendry, Gary KILLER ELITE(2011)
Periods (Ancient-Postclassical-E Modern-19th Century-20th Century ) Verbal Arts (Language-Script-Myth-Folklore) Visual Arts (Painting-Sculpture-Architecture) Performing Arts (Dance-Music-Theatre-Cinema) Literary Works
Swift, Jonathan(1667-1745)TALE OF A TUB, A(1704)-GULLIVER’S TRAVELS(1726)- MODEST PROPOSAL, A(1729)
Congreve, William(1670-1729)DOUBLE-DEALER, THE(1693)- OLD BACHELOR, THE(1693)- LOVE FOR LOVE(1695)- WAY OF THE WORLD, THE(1700)
Steele, Sir Richard(1672-1729)SPECTATOR, THE (1711-1714)-CONSCIOUS LOVERS, THE(1722)
Farquhar, George(1677-1707)RECRUITING OFFICER, THE(1706)- BEAUX’ STRATAGEM, THE(1707)
Brooke, Henry(1703-1783) FOOL OF QUALITY, THE(1765)
Sterne, Laurence(1713-1768)TRISTRAM SHANDY(1759-1767)- SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, A(1768)-JOURNAL TO ELIZA(1904)
Goldsmith, Oliver(1728-1774)VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, THE(1766)- SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER(1773)
Burke, Edmund(1729-1797)REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE(1790)
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley(1751-1816)RIVALS, THE(1775)- SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, THE(1777)-CRITIC, THE(1779)
Edgeworth, Maria(1768-1849)CASTLE RACKRENT(1800)-BELINDA(1801)- ABSENTEE, THE(1812)
Moore, Thomas(1779-1852)IRISH MELODIES(1807-1835)- LALLA ROOKH(1817)
Maturin, Charles Robert(1780-1824)MELMOTH THE WANDERER(1820)
Carleton, William(1794-1869)EMIGRANTS OF AHADARRA, THE(1848)
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan(1814-1873)HOUSE BY THE CHURCHYARD, THE(1863)- UNCLE SILAS(1864-1865)
Stoker, Bram(1847-1912) DRACULA(1897)
Gregory, Lady Augusta(1852-1932)RISING OF THE MOON, THE(1905)
Moore, George(1852-1933)ESTHER WATERS(1894)
Wilde, Oscar(1854-1900)PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, THE(1890)-LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN(1892)-IMPORTANCE OF BEING EAMEST, THE(1895)-DE PROFUNDIS(1905)
Shaw, George Bernard(1856-1950)ARMS AND THE MAN(1894)- CANDIDA(1897)-CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA(1901)- MAN AND SUPERMAN(1903)-MAJOR BARBARA(1905)- PYGMALION(1912)-HEARTBREAK HOUSE(1919)-BACK TO METHUSELAH(1921)- SAINT JOAN(1923)
Yeats, William Butler(1865-1939)COUNTESS CATHLEEN, THE(1892)- DEIRDRE(1906)- TOWER, THE(1927)-PURGATORY(1938)
Synge, John Millington(1871-1909)RIDERS TO THE SEA(1903)-PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, THE(1907)- DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS(1910) O’Casey, Sean(1880-1964) JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK(1924)- PLOUGH AND THE STARS, THE(1926)- PURPLE DUST (1940)
Stephens, James(1880-1950)CROCK OF GOLD, THE(1912)- DEIRDRE(1923)
Joyce, James(1882-1941)DUBLINERS(1914)- PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, A(1914-1915) EXILES(1918)- ULYSSES(1922)- FINNEGANS WAKE(1939)
O’Flaherty, Liam(1896-1984)INFORMER, THE(1925)
Bowen, Elizabeth(1899-1973)HOUSE IN PARIS, THE(1935) DEATH OF THE HEART, THE(1938)- HEAT OF THE DAY, THE(1949)
O'Faoláin, Seán(1900-1991)NEST OF SIMPLE FOLK, A(1933)
Beckett, Samuel(1906-1989)MOLLOY(1951)- MALONE DIES(1951)- WAITING FOR GODOT(1952)-UNNAMABLE, THE(1953)- ALL THAT FALL(1957)- ENDGAME(1957)- KRAPP’S LAST TAPE(1958)
Friel, Brian(1929-2015)DANCING AT LUGHNASA(1990)
McCourt, Frank(1930-2009)ANGELA’S ASHES(1996)
O’Brien, Edna(1930- )COUNTRY GIRLS TRILOGY AND EPILOGUE, THE(1960-1964)
Heaney, Seamus(1939-2013)SEEING THINGS(1991)- DISTRICT AND CIRCLE(2006)
Banville, John(1945- )Revolutions Trilogy [DOCTOR COPERNICUS (1976)-KEPLER (1976)-NEWTON LETTER (1982)]- Frames Trilogy [BOOK OF EVIDENCE (1989)-GHOSTS (1993)-ATHENA (1995)]-Cleave Trilogy [ECLIPSE (2000)-SHROUD (2002)-ANCIENT LIGHT (2012)]
Cary, Joyce(1988-1957)HORSE’S MOUTH, THE(1944)
Films
Brenon,Herbert(1880-1958) DAUGHTER OF THE GODS, A(1916)- WAR BRIDES(1916)-PETER PAN(1924)-KISS FOR CINDERELLA, A(1925)-BEAU GESTE(1926)- DANCING MOTHERS(1926)
Ingram, Rex(1892-1950) FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (1921)- WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS (1923)-MARE NOSTRUM(1926)
O’connor, Pat(1943- ) CAL(1984)-MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, A(1987)-STARS AND BARS(1988)-JANUARY MAN (1989)- FOOLS OF FORTUNE(1990)- INVENTING THE ABBOTTS(1997)- DANCING AT LUGHNASA(1998)- SWEET NOVEMBER(2001)
Johnson, Hugh(1946-2015)CHILL FACTOR(1999)
Comerford, Joe(1947- )REEFER AND THE MODEL(1988)
O’sullivan, Thaddeus(1947- )NOTHING PERSONAL(1995)
Sheridan, Jim(1949- )MY LEFT FOOT(1989)-FIELD (1990)- IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER(1993)-BOXER(1997)- IN AMERICA(2002)- GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’(2005)- BROTHERS(2009)- DREAM HOUSE(2011)
Jordan, Neil(1950- ) COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984)- MONA LISA(1986)- HIGH SPIRITS(1988)-WE’RE NO ANGELS(1989)- MIRACLE (1991)- CRYING GAME (1992)-INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE(1994)-MICHAEL COLLINS(1996)- THE BUTCHER BOY(1997)- THE END OF THE AFFAIR(1999)- IN DREAMS(1999)-THE GOOD THIEF(2002)- BREAKFAST ON PLUTO(2005)- THE BRAVE ONE(2007)- ONDINE(2009)- BYZANTIUM(2012)
Murphy, Pat (1951- ) NORA(2000)
George, Terry(1952- )SOME MOTHER’S SON(1996)- HOTEL RWANDA(2004)- RESERVATION ROAD(2007)- THE PROMISE(2016)
Sheridan, Peter(1952- )BORSTAL BOY(2000)
Moore, Michael(1954- ) ROGER AND ME(1989)- THE BIG ONE(1997)- FAHRENHEIT 9/11(2004)-SICKO(2007)- CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY(2009)- WHERE TO INVADE NEXT(2015)- FAHRENHEIT 11/9(2018)
Barron, Steve(1956- )TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES(1990)- CONEHEADS(1993)- THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO(1996)
Hamm, Nick(1957- ) TALK OF ANGELS(1998)- THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU(1998)- GODSEND(2004)
Stembridge, Gérard(1958- )ABOUT ADAM(2001)
Walsh, Aisling(1958- )MAUDIE(2016)
Deasy, Frank(1959-2009)COURIER (1988)
Branagh, Kenneth(1960- )HENRY V(1989)- DEAD AGAIN(1991)- PETER’S FRIENDS(1992)- MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING(1993)- MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN(1994)- A MIDWINTER’S TALE; IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER(1995)- HAMLET(1996)- LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST(2000)- SLEUTH(2007)- THOR(2011)- JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT(2014)-CINDERELLA(2015)-MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS(2017)
Lowney, Declan(1960- )TIME WILL TEIL(1992)
McGuckian, Mary(1963- )THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY(2004)
Breathnach, Paddy(1964- )I WENT DOWN(1997)- BLOW DRY(2001)
Abrahamson, Lenny(1966- )FRANK(2014)- ROOM(2015)- THE LITTLE STRANGER(2018)
Kerr, David (1967- )JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN(2018)
McDonagh, John M.(1967- )THE GUARD(2011)- CALVARY(2014)
O’donnell, Damien(1967- )EAST IS EAST(1999)- RORY O’SHEA WAS HERE(2004)
Crowley, John(1969- )INTERMISSION(2004)- IS ANYBODY THERE?(2009)- CLOSED CIRCUIT(2013)- BROOKLYN(2015)
Joyce, Maurice(1969- )DOUG’S FIRST MOVIE(1999)
Dudi Appleton(1969- )THE MOST FERTILE MAN IN IRELAND(1999)
McDonagh, Martin(1970- )IN BRUGES(2008)- SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS(2012)- THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI(2017)
Moore, John(1970- )BEHIND ENEMY LINES(2001)- FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX(2004)- THE OMEN(2006)- MAX PAYNE(2008)- A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD(2013)
Mcpherson, Conor(1971- )SALTWATER(1999)- THE ECLIPSE(2009)
Twomey, Nora(1971- )THE SECRET OF KELLS(2009)- THE BREADWINNER(2017)
Carney, John(1972- )ONCE(2007)- BEGIN AGAIN(2013)- SING STREET(2016)
Townsend, Stuart(1972- )BATTLE IN SEATTLE(2007)
McQuaid, Glenn(1973- )V/H/S(2012)
Sheridan, Kristen(1976- )AUGUST RUSH(2007)
Moore, Tomm(1977- ) THE SECRET OF KELLS(2009)
Foy, Ciaran(1979- )CITADEL(2012)- SINISTER 2(2015)
Shore, Gary(1981- )DRACULA UNTOLD(2014)
Avis, Meiert FAR FROM HOME(1989)
Daly, Lance KISSES(2008)
McKendry, Gary KILLER ELITE(2011)