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John Banville (1945)

Nightspan

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Birchwood

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Doctor Copernicus

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Kepler

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The Newton Letter

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Long Lankin

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Mefisto

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Ghosts

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Athena

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Eclipse

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Sebastian Barry (1955)

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

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Samuel Beckett 1 (1906 - 1989)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1969

More Pricks Than Kicks

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Murphy

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Whoroscope

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Echo's Bones

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Watt

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Molloy, Malone meurt {Malone Dies}, L'innommable {The Unnamable}

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Eleutheria

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En attendant Godot {Waiting for Godot}

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Fin de partie {Endgame}

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Krapp's Last Tape

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Happy Days

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Stories and Texts for Nothing

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Maeve Binchy (1940)

This Year It Will Be Different

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The Return Journey and London Transports

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Evening Class

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The Glass Lake

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The Copper Beech

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The Lilac Bus

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Circle of Friends

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Silver Wedding

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Firefly Summer

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Echoes

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Light a Penny Candle

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Dermot Bolger (1959)

Finbar's Hotel

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Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel

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The Passion of Jerome

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Elizabeth Bowen 2 (1899 - 1973)

Encounters

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The Hotel

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The Last September

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The House in Paris

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The Heat of the Day

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The Demon Lover (Ivy Gripped the Steps)

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The Death of the Heart

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Seamus Deane (1940)

Reading in the Dark

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Gradual Wars

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History Lessons

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Rumours

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Selected Poems

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Roddy Doyle (1958)

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

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The Barrytown Trilogy

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      The Commitments

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      The Snapper

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      The Van

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The Woman Who Walked into Doors

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Maria Edgeworth 3 (1767 - 1849)

The Parent's Assistant

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Castle Rackrent

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Belinda

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Tales of Fashionable Life

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The Absentee

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Patronage

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Harrington

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Ormond

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Helen

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Brian Friel (1929)

Philadelphia, Here I Come!

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The Loves of Cass McGuire

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Lovers

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Crystal and Fox

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The Mundy Scheme

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The Freedom of the City

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Volunteers

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Living Quarters

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Making History

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Aristocrats

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Translations

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Dancing at Lughnasa

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Oliver Goldsmith 4 (1730 - 1774)

The Citizen of the World

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The Traveller

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The Deserted Village

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The Vicar of Wakefield

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Seamus Heaney (1939)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1995

Death of a Naturalist

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Door into the Dark

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Wintering Out

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North

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Field Work

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Station Island

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The Haw Lantern

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Seeing Things

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Electric Light

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The Spirit Level

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James Joyce 5 (1882 - 1941)

Dubliners

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Ulysses

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Finnegans Wake

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Molly Keane (1904 - 1996)

The Knight of Cheerful Countenance

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Devoted Ladies

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Spring Meeting (written with John Perry)

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Treasure Hunt (written with John Perry)

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Good Behaviour

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Time After Time

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Loving and Giving (Queen Lear)

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Conversation Piece

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Bernard MacLaverty (1942)

A Time to Dance

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Secrets

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Andrew McAndrew

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The Anatomy School

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The Great Profundo

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Lamb

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Cal

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Grace Notes

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Walking the Dog

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Eugene McCabe (1930)

Tales from the Poorhouse

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King of the Castle

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A Matter of Conscience

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Patrick McCabe (1955)

Breakfast on Pluto

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The Butcher Boy

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The Dead School

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Frank McCourt 6 (1931)

Angela's Ashes

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`Tis

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John McGahern (1934)

The Barracks

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The Dark

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The Leave Taking

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The Pornographer

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Amongst Women

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Nightlines

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Getting Through

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High Ground

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The Collected Stories

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Robert McLiam Wilson (1966)

Eureka Street

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Ripley Bogle

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Manfred's Pain

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Patrick McGrath (1950)

The Grotesque

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Spider

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Dr. Haggard's Disease

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Asylum

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Martha Peake

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Brian Merriman (1747 - 1805)

The Midnight Court (Translated by Frank O'Connor)

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Edna O'Brien (1932)

The Country Girls Trilogy

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      The Country Girls

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      The Lonely Girl

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      Girls in Their Married Bliss

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August Is a Wicked Month

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Casualties of Peace

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A Pagan Place

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Night

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(Johnny) I hardly Knew You

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The High Road

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Time and Tide

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Wild Decembers

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House of Splendid Isolation

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Down by the River

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The Love Object

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A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories

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A Fanatic Heart

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Lantern Slides

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Flann O'Brien (1911 - 1966)

At Swim-Two-Birds

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The Hard Life

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The Dalkey Archive (as a play "When the Saints Go Cycling In")

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The Third Policeman

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Brendan O'Carroll (1955)

Sparrow's Trap

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The Mammy

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The Chisellers

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Agnes Browne

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The Granny

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Frank O'Connor (1903 - 1966)

An Only Child

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Guests of the Nation

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Crab Apple Jelly

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Collected Stories

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Joseph O'Connor (1963)

The Salesman

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Sean O'Faolain (1900 - 1991)

Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories

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A Nest of Simple Folk

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Bird Alone

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Come Back to Erin

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A Life of Daniel O'Connell

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And Again?

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George Bernard Shaw 7 (1856 - 1950)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1925

Pygmalion

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Mrs. Warren's Profession

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Arms and the Man

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Candida

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Man and Superman

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Major Barbara

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The Doctor's Dilemma

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Heartbreak House

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Saint Joan

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Too True To Be Good

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Widowers' Houses

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The Philanderer

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An Unsocial Socialist

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Edith Anna Oenone Somerville (1858 - 1949)

In Mr. Knox's Country

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Mount Music

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The Big House at Inver

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The Sweet Cry of Houndy

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Sarah's Youth

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Somerville and Ross
Edith Anna Oenone Somerville (1858 - 1949)
Martin Ross {Violet Florence Martin} (1862 - 1915)

An Irish Cousin

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Naboth's Vineyard

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In the Vine Country

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Through Connemara in a Governess Cart

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The Real Charlotte

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Beggars on Horseback

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The Silver Fox

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Some Experiences of an Irish R. M.

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A Patrick's Day Hunt

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All On the Irish Shore

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Further Experiences of an Irish R. M.

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Dan Russell the Fox

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Laurence (Lawrence) Sterne 8 (1713 - 1768)

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy , Gentleman

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Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick

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Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912)

The Snake's Pass

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Dracula

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The Mystery of the Sea

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The Jewel of Seven Stars

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The Lady of the Shroud

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The Lair of the White Worm

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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

A Tale of a Tub

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Gulliver's Travels

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The Complete Poems

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A Modest Proposal and Other Stories

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William Trevor (1928)

Nights at the Alexandra

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The Hill Bachelors

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The Collected Stories

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Fools of Fortune

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Ireland

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After Rain

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Felicia's Journey

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Oscar Wilde 9 (1854 - 1900)

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

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A House of Pomegranates

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Lady Windermere's Fan

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Salomé

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A Woman of No Importance

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An Ideal Husband

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The Importance of Being Earnest

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The Ballad of Reading Goal

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W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865 - 1939)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923

The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems

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Cathleen ni Houlihan

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Celtic Twilight

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The Land of Heart's Desire

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The Hour Glass

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The King's Threshold

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On Baile's Strand

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Deirdre

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Responsibilities: Poems and a Play

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The Tower

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The Winding Stair

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Four Plays for Dancers

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At The Hawk's Well

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