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25 relations: Abbey Theatre, Annals, Brian Friel, Castle Rackrent, Catholic Church, Coyne (surname), Cré na Cille, Easter, 1916, Edna O'Brien, Folk music, Great Famine (Ireland), Gulliver's Travels, Irish bardic poetry, Irish literature, John Banville, Maria Edgeworth, Oxford University Press, Patrick Kavanagh, Robert Anthony Welch, Roddy Doyle, Seamus Heaney, Swift, The Book of Evidence, W. B. Yeats, William Carleton.
Abbey Theatre
The Abbey Theatre (Amharclann na Mainistreach), also known as the National Theatre of Ireland (Amharclann Náisiúnta na hÉireann), in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, first opened its doors to the public on 27 December 1904.
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Annals
Annals (annāles, from annus, "year") are a concise historical record in which events are arranged chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record.
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Brian Friel
Brian Patrick Friel (9 January 1929 – 2 October 2015), born in Omagh, Northern Ireland, was a dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company.
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Castle Rackrent
Castle Rackrent, a short novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800, is often regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel and the first saga novel.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Coyne (surname)
Coyne is a surname of Irish origin anglicised from the Gaelic Ó Cadhain meaning "descendant of Cadhan".
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Cré na Cille
Cré na Cille (‘The Churchyard’s Soil’) is an Irish language novel by Máirtín Ó Cadhain.
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Easter, 1916
1920 photograph of William Butler Yeats Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916.
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Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien, DBE (born 15 December 1930) is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine (an Gorta Mór) or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849.
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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Irish bardic poetry
Bardic Poetry is the writings produced by a class of poets trained in the Bardic Schools of Ireland and the Gaelic parts of Scotland, as they existed down to about the middle of the 17th century or, in Scotland, the early 18th century.
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Irish literature
Irish literature comprises writings in the Irish, Latin, and English (including Ulster Scots) languages on the island of Ireland.
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John Banville
William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who sometimes writes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter.
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Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist.
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Robert Anthony Welch
Robert Anthony Welch (25 November 1947 – 3 February 2013) was an Irish author and scholar.
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Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.
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Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.
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Swift
The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds.
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The Book of Evidence
The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by the Irish writer John Banville.
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W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
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William Carleton
William Carleton (4 March 1794, Prolusk (often spelt as Prillisk as on his gravestone), Clogher, County Tyrone – 30 January 1869, Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin) was an Irish writer and novelist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oxford_Companion_to_Irish_Literature
