Ireland's Literary Voice

Thank you for visiting the ILV-page of the U. S. Naval Academy's English Department. This site is the outcome of the special topics course offered during the Spring semester of 1997. The pages below are the students' research papers on a wide variety of Irish related topics. The topics are about half literary/myth related and half historical figures and concepts. The course was designed around this blend of history, myth and literature as the distinction between these topics is especially difficult to discern in Ireland's case. For more information about the class please see:

A quick word about the papers. They are presented here as they were submitted for the class, so they have not gone through an elaborate editorial process. Rather, they have been peer-reviewed for accuracy and comprehensiveness. There will be a link to the peer-review at the top of each of the pages.

Figures	Events, etc.
AE (George Russell)	Abbey Theater
Brian Boru	Constitution and Government
St. Brigit	Cromwell & the 1641 Rebellion
Elizabeth Bowen	Famine
Michael Collins	Gaelic League
St. Colum	Home Rule/Land Wars
Eamon de Valera	Ireland and the European Union (EU)
Roddy Doyle	Irish-American Diaspora
Brian Friel	Irish-British Relations (1960s & 70s)
Lady Augusta Gregory	Irish-British Relations (80s-Current)
Seamus Heaney	Irish Civil War
Douglas Hyde	James II and the Jacobite War
James Joyce	Penal Laws
Patrick Kavanagh	Tudor Conquest
Thomas Kinsella	Viking Invasions
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill	Yeats' A Vision
Turlough O'Carolan
Sean O'Casey
Daniel O'Connell
Frank O'Connor
Liam O'Flaherty
Charles Stewart Parnell
St. Patrick
Patrick Pearse
Somerville & Ross
Jonathan Swift
J. M. Synge
W. B. Yeats

The material contained in the ILV directories does not necessarily express the opinions of the
Department of the Navy nor the United States Naval Academy

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If you have any questions or comments about this project, please e-mail Asst. Prof. Anne Ellis.