Irish male novelists
George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo.
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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 male dramatists and playwrights, Irish expatriates in France20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsIrish male short story writers, 20th-century Irish short story writers, 20th-century Irish novelistsOscar Wilde
Melvyn Bragg discusses Oscar Wilde, the Aesthetes and his literary legacy. Was Wilde a reactionary - the last of the romantics - or was he the midwife to modernism?
6 December 2001
Featuring: Valentine Cunningham, Regenia Gagnier, Neil Sammells
CultureAphoristsVictorian novelistsVictorian poetsWriters of Gothic fictionAlumni of Trinity College DublinConversationalistsIrish male poetsBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryLGBTQ Roman CatholicsLibertarian socialistsBisexual novelistsAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Irish male novelistsBisexual male writersBisexual journalistsLGBTQ AnglicansConverts to Roman Catholicism from AnglicanismFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandFin de siècleBisexual poetsInfectious disease deaths in FranceIrish male dramatists and playwrights, Irish expatriates in FranceAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writers19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, Symbolist dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poetsPeople convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardonsPeople educated at Portora Royal School, Irish writers in FrenchIrish Freemasons, Irish people of English descent, Irish libertariansSamuel 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 male dramatists and playwrights, Irish expatriates in France20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poetsPeople educated at Portora Royal School, Irish writers in FrenchIrish male short story writers, 20th-century Irish short story writers, 20th-century Irish novelists