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Alison Whyte and Colin Friels

4 March 2017

9:00 AM

4 March 2017

9:00 AM

When I was at secondary school in the 1950s, we were taught about the significance of the 20th century’s Irish writers, poets and playwrights including W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Sean O’Casey and J.M.Synge, and the impact of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre which was founded in 1904. Irish writers have maintained a remarkable influence on English language literature.

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