20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poets, 20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights
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Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing up in Catholic Ireland.
26 November 2009
Featuring: Roy Foster, Katherine Mullin, Jeri Johnson
CultureLiterary theoristsModernist writersModernismIrony theoristsTrope theoristsIrish male poetsMetaphor theoristsSurrealist writersHumor researchersIrish male novelistsEyepatch wearersDeaths from ulcers20th-century letter writersIrish satiristsIrish expatriates in France, Irish male dramatists and playwrights20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poets, 20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights20th-century Irish short story writers, 20th-century Irish novelists, Irish male short story writersSamuel Beckett
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the author of Waiting for Godot, who lived in Paris and wrote in French as he found that more difficult than writing in English
17 January 2019
Featuring: Steven Connor, Laura Salisbury, Mark Nixon
CultureFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesNobel laureates in LiteratureExistentialistsModernist writers20th-century essayistsAlumni of Trinity College DublinPhilosophers of pessimismScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Absurdist writersIrish male novelistsFrench Resistance membersBurials at Montparnasse CemeteryPrix Italia winnersAcademics of Trinity College DublinAnti-natalistsFormer AnglicansPeople with Parkinson's diseaseIrish expatriates in France, Irish male dramatists and playwrights20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poets, 20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrightsIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poetsIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal School20th-century Irish short story writers, 20th-century Irish novelists, Irish male short story writersYeats and Irish Politics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet W.B. Yeats and Irish politics from the suspension of home rule to the division of Ireland.
17 April 2008
Featuring: Roy Foster, Fran Brearton, Warwick Gould
CultureSonneteersNobel laureates in LiteratureModernist theatreAnglican poetsIrish male poetsFellows of the Royal Society of LiteratureIrish AnglicansVictorian writersFormalist poetsAnthologistsIrish expatriates in France, Irish male dramatists and playwrights20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poets, 20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrightsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poets19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsSymbolist poets, Irish occultists, W. B. Yeats, William Blake scholars, Abbey Theatre, Members of the 1922 Seanad, People from Sandymount, Protestant Irish nationalists, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Members of the 1925 Seanad, Independent members of Seanad Éireann, People from West Kensington, Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Alumni of the National College of Art and Design, Burials in the Republic of Ireland, People educated at The High School, Dublin, Irish occult writers, Irish folklorists, Irish Dominion League, Butler Yeats familyYeats and Mysticism
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and beliefs of the Irish Poet W B Yeats and explores how a passion for magic and mysticism served and stood alongside his poetry.
31 January 2002
Featuring: Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, Brenda Maddox
CultureSonneteersNobel laureates in LiteratureModernist theatreAnglican poetsIrish male poetsFellows of the Royal Society of LiteratureIrish AnglicansVictorian writersFormalist poetsAnthologistsIrish expatriates in France, Irish male dramatists and playwrights20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poets, 20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrightsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poets19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsSymbolist poets, Irish occultists, W. B. Yeats, William Blake scholars, Abbey Theatre, Members of the 1922 Seanad, People from Sandymount, Protestant Irish nationalists, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Members of the 1925 Seanad, Independent members of Seanad Éireann, People from West Kensington, Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Alumni of the National College of Art and Design, Burials in the Republic of Ireland, People educated at The High School, Dublin, Irish occult writers, Irish folklorists, Irish Dominion League, Butler Yeats family