The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature

Guided by great works from Yeats, Joyce, Lady Gregory, and others, discover the dazzling world of the Irish Renaissance-led by an award-winning professor.

• By This Professor
• 01: Roots of Irish Identity: Celts to Monks
• 02: Gaelic Ireland's Fall: Vikings to Cromwell
• 03: The Penal Laws and Protestant Ascendancy
• 04: Ireland at the Turn of the 19th Century
• 05: Daniel O'Connell and the Great Famine
• 06: The Celtic Revival
• 07: Shaw and Wilde: Irish Wit, London Stage
• 08: W. B. Yeats and the Irish Renaissance
• 09: Yeats in the 1890s
• 10: Lady Gregory: The Woman behind the Revival
• 11: J. M. Synge and the Aran Islands
• 12: James Joyce: Emerging Genius of Dublin
• 13: Joyce's Dubliners: Anatomy of a City
• 14: The Abbey Theatre
• 15: Lady Gregory as the People's Playwright
• 16: Early Plays of J. M. Synge
• 17: Synge's Playboy of the Western World
• 18: The Dublin Lockout and World War I
• 19: The 1916 Easter Rising
• 20: Joyce's Portrait of the Artist
• 21: Joyce's Portrait as Modernist Narrative
• 22: Yeats as the Great 20th-Century Poet
• 23: Michael Collins and the War of Independence
• 24: The Irish Civil War
• 25: Ulysses: A Greek Epic in an Irish World
• 26: Three Episodes from Ulysses
• 27: Molly Bloom: Joyce's Voice of Love
• 28: Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy
• 29: Life and Legacy of Lady Gregory
• 30: Yeats: The Tower Poems and Beyond
• 31: Blasket Island Storytellers
• 32: Finnegans Wake: Joyce's Final Epic
• 33: Patrick Kavanagh: After the Renaissance
• 34: Modern Ireland in Paint and Glass
• 35: De Valera's Ireland: The 1930s
• 36: Seamus Heaney's Poetry of Remembrance