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Cuchulainn
is the hero of one of Ireland’s most famous tales of ancient times. The
story is based on fact but the details are mythological. Cuchulainn’s father
was said to be Lug, the Son of God. The boy was called Setanta until he
was 7 years old. Then he won the name "Cuchulainn" or "Hound of Culan",
by guarding the house of Culan, whose ferocious watchdog he had killed.
After the young warrior had been wounded in battle he tied himself to a
pillar so that he might die on his feet.
The
Vikings came from Norway and Scandinavia. They were great sailors and ship
builders. They ruled all over Europe, including the coasts of Ireland and
Britain. Mostly they attacked the wealthy Churches and Monasteries. The
first record of a Viking attack in Ireland was in AD 795.
First
High King of Ireland, known as Brian of the Tributes was King of Tara in
1002 AD. Brian ruled by force and was particularly hated by the men of
Leinster. In 1014 they asked the Vikings of Dublin to join them in an uprising
against Brian. The two armies met on April 23rd 1014 at Clontarf near Dublin
and a great battle took place. Brian’s army won in the end, but the famous
leader was killed in his tent by Brodor, an escaping Leinsterman.
Oscar
Wilde was born in Dublin and was an author, playwright and wit. He left
Ireland to study at Oxford University where he distinguished himself as
a scholar. In 1885, Wilde was at the peak of his career and had three hit
plays running simultaneously. In that same year he was accused of having
a relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas. As a result, he became involved
in a hopeless legal dispute and he was sentenced to two years in prison.
From prison came his best poem "The ballad of Reading Gaol". Wilde left
England after his release. Ruined in health, finances and creative energy,
but with his wit still intact, he died in France three years later.
An
Irish Dramatist, critic and essayist, ranks as one of the most important
literary figures of the 1900’s. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1925. In a remarkable career that covered nearly 60 years, he wrote over
60 plays, most of them comedies.
An
Irish Poet and Dramatist, won the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. Yeats
was born in Dublin and spent many of his holidays in Sligo, a County in
Western Ireland that he loved and often wrote about. In 1898, he joined
Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn in establishing the Irish Literary Theatre,
which later became known as the now world famous Abbey Theatre.
James
Joyce was born in Dublin and wrote all of his works about the city, though
he lived outside Dublin from 1904 on. He lived and wrote in Paris,Rome,Trieste
and Zurich and returned to Ireland only twice. Joyce suffered with a painful
eye disease for most of his adult life and became almost blind, despite
many operations. Joyce lived in poverty and obscurity until 1922 when the
publication of Ulysees made him one of the most celebrated novelists of
the 1900's. Many critics consider William Shakespeare his only rival as
a master of the english language.
Samuel
Beckett, Irish writer, graduated from Trinity College and travelled to
Paris as secretary for his friend James Joyce. There he commenced his own
writing career with numerous novels, but it is for his plays he is best
known, notably - "Waiting for Godot" (1952), "Endgame" (1957), and "Knapps
Last Tape" (1958). Writing in the tradition of Joyce & O’Brien, his
works portray an absurd sense of the futility of life and the characters
are chiefly remarkable for the persistence they display in difficult personal
circumstances. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969.