Irish essayists
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Oliver Goldsmith
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield and The Deserted Village who was a great populariser of science and history in his time.
20 February 2025
Featuring: David O’Shaughnessy, Judith Hawley, Michael Griffin
CultureIrish AnglicansIrish male novelistsIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish male poetsStreathamites18th-century Irish novelists, 18th-century Irish poetsIrish essayistsAlumni of Trinity College Dublin18th-century Anglo-Irish people, 18th-century Irish male writersAlumni of the University of EdinburghSamuel 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
Culture20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsNobel laureates in LiteratureExistentialistsPrix Italia winnersAbsurdist writersFormer AnglicansPeople with Parkinson's diseaseIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish essayistsBurials at Montparnasse Cemetery20th-century Irish novelists, 20th-century Irish short story writers, Irish male short story writersIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAcademics of Trinity College Dublin20th-century essayistsScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Irish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poetsFrench Resistance membersIrish expatriates in FranceIrish male novelistsAlumni of Trinity College DublinAnti-natalistsModernist writersPhilosophers of pessimism