Famous Irish writers to read before going:

Cultural homework:
G. B. Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Bram Stoker, Patrick Kavanaugh, Sean O'Casey Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Brendan Behan, Thomas Moore, J. M. Synge.

I plan on reading a selection from most authors.

Notable works (orrrr more like a list of sometimes serious, sometimes odd, and sometimes goofy things relating to each writer listed above):

- "My Fair Lady" based off G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion which is based of the Galatean Myth. A fun little video on the original myth and the G. B. Shaw book: Pygmalion

- Yeats poems are available just by googling them. I'm not a poetry person, but read his one about Halloween due to the proximity to the holiday right now. Called "All Soul's Night"

- Samuel Beckett's most famous play "Waiting for Godot" is on Youtube, I've watched part of it... but understood none ;) but I did enjoy the accents. The first part is here: Waiting for Godot

- Of course: Dracula - Bram Stoker... Unless you'd rather watch famous Irish actor Liam Neeson with The Count from Sesame Street? 20, AH AH AH!

- Patrick Kavanaugh's poem "On Raglan Road" as sung by the Dubliners On Raglan Road

- Indiana Jones meets Sean O'Casey in an old TV show "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" Indy meets O'Casey

- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

- The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (I really tried to find the Wayne and Shuster spoof where instead of the picture aging for him, his portrait gains weight for him... Alas, no where to be found!) BUT I DID FIND THIS! Dorian Gray Oh hey there Ben Barnes. ;)

- Ulysses by James Joyce (what is it with rewritings of Greek myths anyway?) Here's a video* of him reading a passage: Ulysse's Passage
*animation of a photograph, it's actually really creepy...

- "The Auld Triangle" a song written about Brendan Behan by his brother Dominic and performed by the Dropkick Murphys. The Auld Triangle

- The Minstrel Boy written by Thomas Moore was a song in the movie Black Hawk Down The Minstrel Boy (however, in this video, someone put the song to clips of Saving Private Ryan... so there you go)

- Riders to the Sea, a play by J. M. Synge is available in it's entirety here: Riders to the Sea or some of the opera version here: Opera!


The Writers Museum in Dublin features all of these people, and is 7.50€ BUT with our Hop on/Hop off bus tour we can get a euro off. So if we wanted to see that, it is an option. :) Dublin Writers Museum