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REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

John Banville
Long Lankin (novel) 1970
Nightspawn (novel) 1971
Birchwood (novel) 1973
Copernicus (novel) 1976
Kepler (novel) 1981
The Newton Letter (novel) 1983
Mephisto (novel) 1986

Samuel Beckett
Molloy (novel) 1950
Malone Dies (novel) 1952
Waiting for Godot (drama) 1954
The Unnameable (novel) 1955
Endgame (drama) 1956
Krapp's Last Tape (drama) 1958
Radio II (drama) 1960
Happy Days (drama) 1961
Ghost Trio III (drama) 1976

Brendan Behan
The Quare Fellow (drama) 1956
The Hostage (drama) 1958
Borstal Boy (novel) 1961

Maeve Binchy
Light a Penny Candle (poetry) 1982
Echoes (novel) 1985

Elizabeth Bowen
The Hotel (novel) 1927
The Last September (novel) 1929
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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
   1. Seamus Deane (essay date 1986)
4. Criticism: Drama
   1. D. E. S. Maxwell (essay date 1984)
   2. Christopher Murray (essay 1989)
   3. Colin Teevan (essay date 1998)
5. Criticism: Fiction
   1. Robert Caswell (essay date 1967)
   2. Maurice Harmon (essay date 1967)
   3. Richard F. Peterson (essay date 1982)
   4. Grattan Freyer (essay date 1983)
   5. Klaus Lubbers (essay date 1985)
   6. James M. Cahalan (essay date 1988)
   7. Richard Kearney (essay date 1988)
   8. Earl G. Ingersoll (essay date 1990)
   9. M. Keith Booker (essay date 1991)
   10. Rüdiger Imhof (essay date 1992)
   11. Vera Kreilkamp (essay date 1998)
6. Criticism: Poetry
   1. Donald T. Torchiana (essay date 1964)
   2. Douglas Dunn (essay date 1973)
   3. Dillon Johnston (essay date 1974)
   4. Seamus Deane (essay date 1976)
   5. Adrian Frazier (essay date 1979)
   6. Kevin P. Reilly (essay date 1980)
   7. Terence Brown (essay date 1981)
   8. Robert F. Garratt (essay date 1986)
   9. John Drexel (essay date 1989)
   10. Thomas E. Kennedy (essay date 1997)
   11. Ailbhe Smyth (essay date 1997)
   12. John Kerrigan (essay date 1998)
   13. Gregory A. Schirmer (essay date 1998)
7. Further Reading
8. Copyright

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