Recipes:

• Brown Bread
• Barmbrack
• Champ
• Beef and Guinness Stew
• Leek and Potato Soup
• Coddle
• Colcannon
• Apple Cake
• Chocolate Guinness Cake

Contemporary Ireland:

• Wikipedia – Celtic Tiger
• Wikipedia – Martin McDonagh
• Wikipedia – Conor McPherson
• Wikipedia – Marina Carr
• Man of Aran (film)
• New Yorker article about Martin McDonagh
• In Bruges (film)
• Interview with Conor McPherson
• Marina Carr on women in war in theatre
• Irish Times editorial on Irish female playwrights
• Current Women’s voices in the Irish Theatre
• Irish Traveller Movement
• Irish Travellers in the U.S.
• Wikipedia – Irish Travellers
• Michael D. Higgins campaign video
• Asking for Sinéad’s hand in marriage video
• Bringing family members to the polls video 
• Stand Up for Your Friends Anti-transphobia video
• Michael D. Higgins serenaded on the street (watch as he sings along with everyone on “The Fields of Athenry” and the man next to him removes his own hat)

“Challenging Times”:

• Proclamation of Irish Independence
• Easter 1916 aftermath (short video)
• The Easter Rising in 8 Minutes (animated short)
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley (well-known feature film about the War of Independence and Irish Civil War)
• Wikipedia – Easter Rebellion of 1916
• Wikipedia – Anglo-Irish War of Independence
• Wikipedia – Irish Civil War
• Brief overview of the Irish Civil War
• Documentary about Michael Collins with early footage
• Documentary about Éamonn de Valera (“Ireland’s Hated Hero”) – part 1 of 4
• Easter 2016 (last month!!) – commemoration of Easter 1916 with lots of marching soldiers and speeches
• De Valera’s Speech: “The Undeserted Village Ireland”
• Documentary about Samuel Beckett (video, including interviews)
• Samuel Beckett: Play (video, with Alan Rickman)
• Samuel Beckett: Endgame (video, with Michael Gambon)
• Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot (video, with English subtitles)
• about Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (video, with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan)
• Samuel Beckett: Krapp’s Last Tape (video, with Patrick Magee)
• Wikipedia – Magdalene Laundries
• NY Times article about the pedophile scandals
• Brendan Behan on Canadian TV (video, part 1 of 3)
• Brendan Behan on the Easter Rebellion (video)
• Brendan Behan sings “The Auld Triangle” (video)
• Quoted words by Brendan Behan
• Irish Times article on Irish emigration

Celtic Revival:

• Wikipedia – Celtic Revival
• Wikipedia – Irish Literary Revival
• Celtic Arts Revival Movement
• The Celtic Revival and the Abbey Theatre
• Fine Arts in the Celtic Revival
• Irish Ireland
• Wikipedia – William Butler Yeats
• The Yeats Society (look under the actual “Yeats Society” menu — top left — and kick around)
• Wikipedia – Lady Augusta Gregory
• Wikipedia – Abbey Theatre
• Wikipedia – John Millington Synge

Historical Research:

• Timeline of Irish History
• Archaeology (many links)
• Megalithic Ireland
• Doing Genealogy

Irish Mythology:

• Lugodoc’s Guide to Celtic Mythology: An brief overview of Celtic Mythology.
• Celtic Gods and Heroes: A student resource for an overview of Celtic life and mythology.
• Stories from Celtic Mythology: Stories of Celtic gods and goddesses.
• Celtic Gods and Associates: The Celtic gods and what they represent.
• Gods of Celtic Mythology: Defining the main Celtic gods.
• Celtic Mythology and the Arthurian Legends: A study of the influences of Celtic mythology on Arthurian legends.
• Lore and Myth: The myths and symbolism of the Celts.
• Creatures of Celtic Mythology: A glossary of Celtic creatures.
• Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race: Ancient tales of Ireland’s Celts.
• Dagda: Read the story of Dagda and his staff that could raise the dead.
• Brighid: Find out what is known about the Celtic goddess Brighid.
• Epona: This resource compiles a great deal of in-depth information on the goddess of horses.