“Challenging Times” poetry – from 1910-1950
“Easter, 1916” by William Butler Yeats (this poem details Yeats’ abrupt politicization)
About Yeats’ “Easter, 1916” poem
“Meditations in a Time of Civil War” by William Butler Yeats
“Drums Under the Window” by Sean O’Casey
“The Great Hunger” by Patrick Kavanagh (about the grinding poverty and sexual inhibition of the Irish farmer in post-colonial Ireland)
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Celtic Twilight short stories of W.B. Yeats
Irish Mythology and Folklore (including some ancient texts that Yeats and others of the Celtic Twilight/Celtic Revival period drew from in creating their poetry)
Dónall Óg (song lyrics read aloud by Mr. Grace in this clip from the film The Dead)
Poems of A.E. Russell (George William Russell)
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