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Your Irish: Popular Sports Played in Ireland
A brief description of the popular sports of Ireland, including fishing, golfing, hurling, Gaelic football, soccer, boxing, and snooker.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: Track Preview: Music of Ireland: Medley
Listen to a sample of traditional Irish music played on the uilleann pipes, from a 1951 recording of music of the world's peoples.
PBS
Pbs: Frontline: The Ira and Sinn Fein: Poetry: "The Foggy Dew"
A favorite of Irish nationalists from the time that it was written (1919), "The Foggy Dew" is an example of a traditional ballad inspired by one of the most significant events in Ireland's long struggle with Britain: the 1916 Easter Rising.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Royal Marriage" by George A. Birmingham
The text of the story "A Royal Marriage" by George A. Birmingham, an Irish author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann: Glossary
Glossary of Irish words associated with traditional Irish music. Includes vocalized pronunication of terms.
A&E Television
Biography: Sean O'casey (1880 1964)
This resource offers a brief biographical sketch of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Lady Bountiful" by George A. Birmingham
Text of the short story "Lady Bountiful" by Irish author George A. Birmingham. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Lunatic at Large" by George A. Birmingham
Text of the short story "A Lunatic at Large" by Irish author George A. Birmingham. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "My Niece Kitty" by George A. Birmingham
Text of the short story "My Niece Kitty" by Irish author George A. Birmingham. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Na Piobairi Uilleann [Society of Uilleann Pipers]: History of the Uilleann Pipes
A history of an instrument central to the playing of traditional Irish music: the Irish bagpipes known as the uilleann pipes.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: W. B. Yeats
A biography of Irish poet William Butler Yeats with links to six of his poems.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Laura Silver Bell" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Text of the short story "Laura Silver Bell" by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Little Grey Glove" by George Egerton
Text of the short story "A Little Grey Glove" by George Egerton, which was a pen name. The author's real name was Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright and she was born in Australia but considered herself Irish. (Free site registration offers some...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Lost Recruit" by Jane Barlow
Text of the short story "A Lost Recruit" by Irish author Jane Barlow. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Neal Malone" by William Carleton
Text of the short story "Neal Malone" by Irish author William Carleton. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Painful Case" by James Joyce
Text of the short story "A Painful Case" by Irish author James Joyce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Schalken the Painter" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Text of the short story "Schalken the Painter" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, a 19th-century Irish writer of Gothic stories. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Na Piobairi Uilleann [Society of Uilleann Pipers]: About the Uilleann Pipes
Illustrated description of the Irish bagpipes known as the uilleann pipes.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Eavan Boland
This American Academy of Poets site provides a biographical sketch for the Irish poet Eavan Boland with a link to the full text of "The Pomegranate." External links to other resources.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: The Molly Maguires
Learn about the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish coal miners in Pennsylvania who led the 'Long Strike of 1875' which resulted in 20 members being unjustly hanged for murder.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: William Michael Harnett
Biographical profile of William Michael Harnett, an Irish-American still-life painter of the late nineteenth century.
Curated OER
Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
This full e-text version of Lady Gregory's "Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography" also includes the appendices and footnotes for the work, as well as illustrations of original manuscript pages.
Curated OER
The History Place: Irish Potato Famine
The History Place provides complete history of the Irish Potato Famine and life in Ireland in the 19th century.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Chocolat Dancing in the Irish American Bar
An image of "Chocolat Dancing in the Irish American Bar", created by Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec in 1896 (Indian ink and chalk on paper,65 x 50 cm).
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