Tick off each book as you read it. 7 of these 56 Irish classics are free to read online at pagineapp.com/classics/irish, with author guides and links to the rest.
Myths, sagas & early Ireland
☐1.The Táin — Anonymous (AD 800)
☐2.The Voyage of Saint Brendan — Anonymous (AD 900)
☐3.Cuchulain of Muirthemne — Lady Gregory (1902)
☐4.Gods and Fighting Men — Lady Gregory (1904)
☐5.Irish Fairy Tales — James Stephens (1920) · free on Pagine
The 18th & 19th centuries
☐6.Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift (1726) · free on Pagine
☐7.A Modest Proposal — Jonathan Swift (1729)
☐8.The Vicar of Wakefield — Oliver Goldsmith (1766)
☐9.She Stoops to Conquer — Oliver Goldsmith (1773)
☐10.The Rivals — Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775)
☐11.The School for Scandal — Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1777)
☐12.Castle Rackrent — Maria Edgeworth (1800)
☐13.Irish Melodies — Thomas Moore (1808)
☐14.Melmoth the Wanderer — Charles Maturin (1820)
☐15.Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry — William Carleton (1830)
☐16.Uncle Silas — Sheridan Le Fanu (1864)
☐17.Carmilla — Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)
☐18.The Happy Prince and Other Tales — Oscar Wilde (1888) · free on Pagine
☐19.The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (1890) · free on Pagine
☐20.The Celtic Twilight — W. B. Yeats (1893)
☐21.The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde (1895)
☐22.Dracula — Bram Stoker (1897) · free on Pagine
☐23.The Wind Among the Reeds — W. B. Yeats (1899)
☐24.Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. — Somerville and Ross (1899)
The Revival & the early 20th century
☐25.Riders to the Sea — J. M. Synge (1904)
☐26.The Playboy of the Western World — J. M. Synge (1907)
☐27.Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw (1913)
☐28.Dubliners — James Joyce (1914) · free on Pagine
☐29.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce (1916)
☐30.Ulysses — James Joyce (1922) · free on Pagine
☐31.Saint Joan — George Bernard Shaw (1923)
☐32.Juno and the Paycock — Seán O’Casey (1924)
☐33.The Informer — Liam O’Flaherty (1925)
☐34.The Plough and the Stars — Seán O’Casey (1926)
☐35.The Tower — W. B. Yeats (1928)
☐36.The Islandman — Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1929)
☐37.The Last September — Elizabeth Bowen (1929)
Modern Irish classics
☐38.Peig — Peig Sayers (1936)
☐39.Murphy — Samuel Beckett (1938)
☐40.At Swim-Two-Birds — Flann O’Brien (1939)
☐41.Finnegans Wake — James Joyce (1939)
☐42.The Great Hunger — Patrick Kavanagh (1942)
☐43.The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — C. S. Lewis (1950)
☐44.Waiting for Godot — Samuel Beckett (1953)
☐45.Borstal Boy — Brendan Behan (1958)
☐46.The Country Girls — Edna O’Brien (1960)
☐47.Death of a Naturalist — Seamus Heaney (1966)
☐48.North — Seamus Heaney (1975)
☐49.Translations — Brian Friel (1980)
☐50.Amongst Women — John McGahern (1990)
☐51.Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha — Roddy Doyle (1993)
☐52.Angela’s Ashes — Frank McCourt (1996)
☐53.The Gathering — Anne Enright (2007)
☐54.Brooklyn — Colm Tóibín (2009)
☐55.Normal People — Sally Rooney (2018)
☐56.Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan (2021)
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