George Bernard Shaw

• Excerpts from Pygmalion (1916).

W. B. Yeats

• "Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea," from The Rose (1893).
• "Easter 1916," from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921).
• "The Valley of the Black Pig" (1896).

J. M. Synge

• The Playboy of the Western World.

Sean O'Casey

• The Plough and the Stars.

James Joyce

• "Ivy Day in the Committee Room."
• "The Dead," Dubliners (1914).

Francis Edward Ledwidge

• "To the One Dead."
• Seamus Heaney's memoriam for Ledwidge, "Killed in France 31 July 1917."
• W. B. Yeats, "An Irish Airman Forsees His Death."
• The Francis Ledwidge home page includes poems and biographical information.

Patrick Kavanagh

• "In Memory of My Father."

Samuel Beckett

• Excerpt from Waiting for Godot.

Louis MacNeice

• "Neutrality."

Brian Friel

• Information about and synopsis of the play Translations (1980).

James Simmons

• "Ballycastle."

Seamus Heaney

• "Personal Helicon," "Bogland," "Tollund Man," "Casualty," "Song," and "Harvest Bow."

Derek Mahon

• Illustrated text of "The Hunt by Night."

Eavon Boland

• "That the Science of Cartography is Limited," "Quarantine," and "Coloney."

Paul Muldoon

• "Meeting the British."

Emma Donoghue

• "The Cost of Things."