Irish books from History:
Irish Literature in the 12th century
The Book of Leinster - 1150 AD (The Lebor Gabala Erren), Aislinge Mac Conglinne
Irish Literature in the 14th century
The Yellow Book of Lecan, The Great Book of Lecan, The Book of Hy Many, and The Book of Ballymote
Irish Literature in the 17th century
The Mourning Bride (1697) - William Congreve, Léig Dhíot Th'arm, a mhacaoimh mná - Phiarais Feirtéir, A Fhir Chumainn - Feargal óg Mac a Bhaird, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn - Seathrún Céitín, Truagh t'Fhágbháil, A Inis Chuinn, - Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig, Ware's Tracts on Popery - James Ware, Is mairg nár chrean le maitheas saoghalts - Dáibhí O'Bruadair
Irish Literature in the 18th century
The Deserted Village (1770) - Oliver Goldsmith, Gullivers Travels - Jonathan Swift, The School for Scandal (1776) - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Brief Discourse - Aodh Buidhe MacCruitín, Wind and Weather, a Sermon (1797) - James Porter, A Letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt (1799) - William Drennan, Poems on Various Subjects (1804) - James Orr, To a Lady- Mary Barber, Tristram Shandy (1760) - Laurence Sterne, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) - Edmund Burke, The Shaugraun (1875) -Dion Boucicault
Irish Literature in the Great Irish Famine: 1845-1850
John Keegan, Anthologia Germanica (1845) - James Clarence Mangan, Alexander the Great (1874) - Aubrey Thomas de Vere, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (1830) - William Carleton
Irish Literature in the 19th century
John Corry, Elizabeth Hardy, William Butler Yeats, Gerald Griffin, Maria Edgeworth, Julia Kavanagh, Katharine Tynan, Alfred Perceval Graves, Michael John Barry, John Banim, Gerald Griffin, Knocknagow (1879) - Charles Kickham, Isaac Bickerstaff, George Moore, William Hamilton Drummond, George Brittaine, Somerville and Ross, William Drennan, Dracula - Bram Stoker, Edmund John Armstrong, Pygmalion (1913) - George Bernard Shaw, The Importance of being Earnest - Oscar Wilde, Jane Wilde, Thomas Dermody, Lord Kilgobbin(1872) - Charles James Lever, The Ballad Book (1864) - William Allingham, Spirit of the Nation - Thomas Osborne Davis, Anna Maria Fielding, Handy Andy - Samuel Lover, Marguerite Power
Irish Literature in the 20th century
Ulysses - James Joyce, Selected Stories. The Midnight Court (1946) - Frank O'Connor, Wild Oats - John O'Keefe, Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett, The Playboy of the Western World - John Millington Synge, Flann O'Brien, Station Island - Seamus Heaney, Juno and the Paycock - Sean O'Casey, Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan, Padraig Pearse, Oliver St.John Gogarty, Padraig Colum, Alfred O'Rahilly, Roger Casement, Augusta Gregory, Francis Stuart, Flann O'Brien , Patrick Kavanagh, Francis Edward Ledwidge, Louis MacNeice, James Simmons, Derek Mahon, Eavon Boland, Paul Muldoon, Emma Donoghue, Brian Friel, Sean O'Faolain, Liam O'Flaherty, Frank O'Connor, Edna O'Brien
Irish Literature in the 21st century
Hay (1998) - Paul Muldoon, The Hill Bachelors (2001) - William Trevor, The Sea (2005) - John Banville, Colm Tobin, Amongst Women (1990) - John McGahern, Medbh McGuckian, The Butcher Boy (1998) - Patrick McCabe, Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha (1993) - Roddy Doyle, Dermot Healy, Brian Keenan, Niall Williams, The Steward of Christendom (1997) - Sebastian Barry, The New Estate (1976) - Ciaran Carson
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925