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Irish Works
YGK These Works by Irish Authors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of the satirical essay A Modest Proposal | Jonathan Swift |
| The group of people Swift proposes using as a food source to alleviate poverty | Children of the poor |
| Swift's justification for landlords eating children | They have already devoured the parents |
| Only novel written by Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Artist who paints the portrait of Dorian Gray | Basil Hallward |
| Hedonistic character who influences Dorian Gray's pursuit of sin | Lord Henry Wotton |
| Actress whose suicide is caused by Dorian Gray | Sibyl Vane |
| Fate of the portrait at the end of the novel | It returns to its original state while Dorian dies as a decrepit corpse |
| Author of the 1897 vampire novel Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Term for a novel told through documents like letters and diaries | Epistolary novel |
| Solicitor who travels to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula | Jonathan Harker |
| Character who recognizes the vampire threat and leads the pursuit of Dracula | Abraham Van Helsing |
| Playwright of The Playboy of the Western World | John Millington Synge |
| Young man who enters a tavern claiming he murdered his father | Christy Mahon |
| Daughter of the tavern owner who falls in love with Christy | Pegeen |
| Theater where the premiere of The Playboy of the Western World caused a riot | Abbey Theater |
| Author of the play Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
| Professor of phonetics who bets he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess | Henry Higgins |
| Flower girl taught by Henry Higgins to speak with proper diction | Eliza Doolittle |
| Musical based on the play Pygmalion | My Fair Lady |
| Author of the poem "Easter, 1916" | William Butler Yeats |
| Refrain that ends three stanzas of "Easter, 1916" | A terrible beauty is born |
| Four executed leaders memorialized in the final stanza of "Easter, 1916" | MacDonagh, MacBride, Connolly, and Pearse |
| Poem by Yeats that asks "what rough beast... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" | The Second Coming |
| Opening lines of "The Second Coming" used as the title for a Chinua Achebe novel | Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold |
| Author of the landmark 1922 novel Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Main character of Ulysses whose day in Dublin is chronicled | Leopold Bloom |
| Wife of Leopold Bloom who closes the novel with a stream-of-consciousness monologue | Molly Bloom |
| Epic poem by Homer that serves as the structural basis for Ulysses | The Odyssey |
| Date on which Ulysses takes place, celebrated annually as "Bloomsday" | June 16, 1904 |
| Playwright of Juno and the Paycock | Seán O’Casey |
| Drunken head of the Boyle family known as "the captain" | Jack Boyle |
| Historical conflict that serves as the setting for Juno and the Paycock | Irish Civil War |
| Other two plays in Seán O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy | The Shadow of a Gunman and The Plough and the Stars |
| Author of the absurdist play Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| Two main characters who wait by a tree for a man who never arrives | Vladimir and Estragon |
| Pozzo's slave who appears in both acts of Waiting for Godot | Lucky |
| Language in which Samuel Beckett originally wrote Waiting for Godot | French |
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