The earlier writing is discussed chronologically, but the great wealth of writing in the last century is discussed in genres: poetry, fiction and drama. The writers are set in their…

In this 1959 study, A. Norman
Jeffares assesses the life and work of Oliver Goldsmith, including his essays and
various writings.

An abundant harvest of poems, ballads and lovesongs from throughout Ireland’s history - from anonymous ballads to the work of Yeats and Heaney.

This is the definitive collection of his poems, encompassing the full range of his powers, from the love lyrics to the political poems, from poems meditating on the bliss of…

Contains more than 320 poems by James Stephens, a biographical and critical introduction by A Norman Jeffares, as well as notes, indexes to titles and first lines, and an Appendix…

Spans the middle decades of the 19th century, a period dominated by the enormity of the Great Famine. Its terror is recorded in first-hand accounts and in the powerless yet…

Maud Gonne MacBride is part of Irish history: her foundation of the women’s group Inghinidhe na hEireann. the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the…