Ireland in Mind: An Anthology

Table Of Contents

Introduction

CONNAUGHT
Heinrich Böll
“Mayo—God Help Us”
“Skeleton of a Human Habitation”

Thomas Flanagan
from The Year of the French

Eric Newby
“To the Aran Islands”

William Makepeace Thackeray
“From Galway to Ballinahinch”

Anthony Trollope
from The Macdermots of Ballycloran

T. H. White
“Letter from a Goose Shooter”

Oscar Wilde
from The Letters of Oscar Wilde 80

MUNSTER
Annabel Davis-Goff
“Glenville”

Frank McCourt
from Angela’s Ashes

George Moore
“Home Sickness”

Edna O’Brien
“My Mother’s Mother”

Muriel Rukeyser
from The Orgy

Wallace Stevens
“The Irish Cliffs of Moher”

Paul Theroux
“Discovering Dingle”

Virginia Woolf
from The Diary of Virginia Woolf


LEINSTER
Samuel Beckett
from Mercier and Camier

John Betjeman
“Ireland with Emily”

Elizabeth Bowen
“Unwelcome Idea”

Maeve Brennan
“The Morning After the Big Fire”

Oliver Goldsmith
from “The Deserted Village”

James Joyce
“A Little Cloud”

Jan Morris
“Do You Think Should He Have Gone Over?”

George Bernard Shaw
“Touring in Ireland”

Jonathan Swift
“An Answer to the Ballyspellin Ballad”

William Trevor
“Autumn Sunshine”

ULSTER
Brendan Behan
“I’m a British Object, Said the Belfast-Man”

Eamon Grennan
“Facts of Life, Ballymoney”

Bernard MacLaverty
“Some Surrender”

Brian Moore
“Going Home”

H.V. Morton
from In Search of Ireland

Niall Williams and Christine Breen
from The Pipes Are Calling

David A.Wilson
“Sweet Carnlough Bay”