What do you think is the central message of Playboy of the Western World? What ideas, themes, or characters from Irish history and literature do you detect in Playboy? How do these ideas, etc. help Synge further his message?
Professors Doyle & Queen
Interesting Irish Links
- A Timeline of Irish History
- Amergin's Poem "I Am Wind on Sea"
- An Overview of Irish Literature
- Ancient Irish Texts Online
- Brehon Law
- Celtic Christian Sites
- Cu Chulainn and his "WarpSpasm"
- Digging by Seamus Heaney
- Dolmens and other Megalithic Sites
- Early Irish Christianity
- GCC Study Abroad Ireland 1999
- GCC Study Abroad Ireland 2001
- Genetic Origins of Ireland and England
- Humanities 111 Class Syllabus (free download)
- Ireland, a Photographic Essay
- Irish History in Maps
- Irish Literature
- Irish-Gaelic Language
- Maps and Facts About Ireland
- Newgrange and the Boyne Valley Sites
- Pangur Ban the Cat
- Ringforts
- Tara of the Kings
- Techniques used in early medieval Irish poetry
- The Cattle Raid of Cooley
- The Champion's Portion
- The Geography of Ireland
- The Story of MacDatho's Pig