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
Culture20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsIrish male novelistsHumor researchersIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish male poetsModernismTrope theoristsEyepatch wearersLiterary theoristsMetaphor theoristsDeaths from ulcers20th-century letter writers20th-century Irish novelists, 20th-century Irish short story writers, Irish male short story writersModernist writersIrish expatriates in FranceIrish satiristsIrony theoristsSurrealist writersOliver 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 EdinburghOscar 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
ConversationalistsIrish male poetsInfectious disease deaths in FranceIrish Freemasons, Irish libertarians, Irish people of English descentConverts to Roman Catholicism from AnglicanismLGBTQ Roman CatholicsWriters of Gothic fictionFin de siècleIrish male dramatists and playwrightsBisexual male writersAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryVictorian novelistsIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolAphoristsVictorian poets19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandLibertarian socialistsScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Anglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersIrish expatriates in FranceBisexual poetsBisexual novelistsIrish male novelistsLGBTQ AnglicansBisexual journalistsAlumni of Trinity College DublinPeople convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardonsSamuel 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