Irish Authors Flashcards
A Model Proposal
Johnathan Swift
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
“Easter, 1916”
William Butler Yeats
The Second coming
William Butler Yeats
Ulysses
James Joyce
Juno and the Paycock
Sean O’Casey
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Gulliver’s Travels
Johnathan Swift
Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw
1729 Satirical essay about eating children
A Modest Proposal
Basil Hallward, Lord Henry Wotton, Sibyl Vane- 1890 about an aging painting
The picture of Dorian Gray
Johnathan Harker, Lucy Westerna, Mina Murray- 1897 vampire book
Dracula
Christy Mahon, Pegeen- 1907 woman lies about murdering father
The Playboy of the Western World
Eliza Doolitle, Mr. Higgins, Colonel Pickering- mr. higgins in love with flowergirl
pygmalion
unsuccessful easter Uprising in ireland against british rule
Easter 1916
Current events predicting Jesus’ return
The Second Coming
Means Odysseus, follows Leopold Bloom in dublin
Ulysses
Boyle family in dublin slums during the 1920s
Juno and the Paycock
Vladmir and Estragon converse while waiting for a woman who never arrives. pozzo and slave lucky. leafless tree
waiting for godot
Main character lemuel wrecks his ship on lilliput and lives among tiny people. he becomes a surgeon
gullivers travel
Play that shows futility of war. Raina Petkoff
Arms and the Man
