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  • NovelThe Vicar of WakefieldOliver Goldsmith · 1766A country parson and his family, ruined, face the powerful men of their parish, in rural England of the 1760s.Literature
  • NovelThe Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · 1890A wish made before a canvas, and a painted mouth that is no longer quite the same.LiteraturePublic domain
  • NovelDraculaBram Stoker · 1897An English solicitor who has come to conclude a sale discovers that he is his client's prisoner.LiteraturePublic domain
  • TaleCuchulain of MuirthemneLady Gregory · 1902The legends of the Ulster hero gathered into a single narrative, in the time of the Irish literary revival.LiteraturePublic domain
  • TheatrePygmalionGeorge Bernard Shaw · 1912A phonetician bets that he will turn a flower seller into a lady, in London before 1914.Literature
  • Feature filmKnocknagowFred O'Donovan · 1918The tenant farmers of a Tipperary estate facing evictions, in the middle of the nineteenth century.Cinema
  • NovelUlyssesJames Joyce · 1922A day in the life of a Dublin advertising canvasser, captured as close as possible to his thoughts.Literature
  • Feature filmIrish DestinyGeorge Dewhurst · 1926A love affair caught up in the armed struggle against the British, filmed five years after the fighting.Cinema
  • PoetryThe TowerWilliam Butler Yeats · 1928An ageing poet, in his tower in the west of Ireland, in the aftermath of the fratricidal struggles of independence.Literature
  • Feature filmThe DawnTom Cooper · 1936A young man from Kerry bears the shame of a grandfather accused of treason, in the time of the armed struggle.Cinema
  • PoetryAutumn JournalLouis MacNeice · 1939A long poem kept like a diary during the autumn of Munich.Literature
  • NovelAt Swim-Two-BirdsFlann O'Brien · 1939A Dublin student writes a novel whose characters rise up against their author.Literature
  • NovelThe Heat of the DayElizabeth Bowen · 1949A woman caught between a lover suspected of treason and the man who is blackmailing her, in a bombed capital.Literature
  • NovelThe Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeC. S. Lewis · 1950Four children pass through a wardrobe and find a country held in winter.Literature
  • TheatreWaiting for GodotEn attendant GodotSamuel Beckett · 1952An endless wait on a country road, in the aftermath of the war.Literature
  • NovelThe Country GirlsEdna O'Brien · 1960Two girls from the west of Ireland flee the convent for Dublin: the novel that caused a scandal in 1960.Literature
  • Feature filmPoitínBob Quinn · 1978A clandestine distiller at odds with two thugs, in the Irish-speaking west.Cinema
  • Feature filmMaevePat Murphy and John Davies · 1981A young woman back from London finds her family again, and a struggle that has no place for her.Cinema
  • Feature filmTravellerJoe Comerford · 1981An arranged marriage among Travellers and a smuggling run across the Northern border.Cinema
  • Short filmThe Ballroom of RomancePat O'Connor · 1982The dance nights of a countryside the young men have left, in the middle of the twentieth century.Cinema
  • Feature filmPigsCathal Black · 1984Unemployed and excluded people brought together in a squat in the capital, in the time of the crisis.Cinema
  • Feature filmEat the PeachPeter Ormrod · 1986Two unemployed men from the Midlands dream of glory by riding motorbikes on a circular wall.Cinema
  • DocumentaryThe Road to God Knows WhereAlan Gilsenan · 1988A generation of young people pushed towards emigration by unemployment, on the eve of the country's great economic boom.Cinema
  • CinemaMy Left FootJim Sheridan · 1989A paralysed Dubliner who paints and writes with one foot: Jim Sheridan's first film.Cinema
  • Feature filmDecember BrideThaddeus O'Sullivan · 1991A servant who refuses marriage, facing the pastor and the neighbours of a rural, Protestant country.Cinema
  • Feature filmThe Crying GameNeil Jordan · 1992An Irish militant and the British hostage he guards, in the time of the Troubles.Cinema
  • NovelWhat Are You Like?Anne Enright · 2000Twin girls separated at birth, between Dublin and London: Anne Enright's second novel.Literature