Irish Authors and the Irish Landscape

These pages examine and reveal the intimate connections between Irish authors and the landscape in which they live and write.  From Joyce's Dublin to Yeats's Sligo countryside, Synge's Aran Islands to the Blasket Island Storytellers, Ireland and its authors share a powerful and passionate connection.  Through the combination of images and text, these web readings illuminate the ways in which Irish authors are embedded in the land of their birth.

 
 

Click on the links below to examine the authors and their world

 
Introducing James Joyce  
Joyce's Dublin Yeats and the Irish Countryside
Synge and the Aran Islands Lady Gregory and Coole Park
Story and World:  The Blasket Islands Literary Dublin