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Which 20th Century Irish novelists are worth checking out beyond the big 3?

>> No.9387306

A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN

>> No.9387314

By big three I'm assuming you mean Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett.

Why not Seamus Heaney?

>> No.9387333

>>9387306
This.But also this >>9387314

Also Montague is comfy

>> No.9387350

>>9387284
Flann O'Brien

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>>9387314
B/c he's a Freemason. So you've only heard of him b/c of his connections.

>> No.9387393

yea if you're not referring to Flann as a part of the big three then get on that
Heaney is great and so is Sean O'Casey even though you asked for novelists read them anyway

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>>9387350
>>9387284
This

>> No.9387434

>>9387314
Novelists, I meant Joyce, Beckett and O'Brien.

>> No.9387502

Amongst Women by John McGahern is worth reading. Very quick read too so you can't really go wrong.

>> No.9387564

>>9387502
Thanks, anon, looks interesting. My library has it.

>> No.9387761

>>9387502
I read that one awhile back. It was pretty good.

>> No.9387776

>>9387314
>Yeats
>novelist

cmon man

>> No.9387779

Banville's still alive and writing I think.

>> No.9387810

Patrick Kavanaghs poetry is pretty well known but he threw out a novel or two too.

>> No.9387819

frank o connors short stories are great

>> No.9387839

>>9387434

Edna?

>> No.9387847

>>9387839
probably Flann (Brian O'Nolan)

>> No.9387855

Iris Murdoch if she's not in your big three

>> No.9387981

>>9387350
>>9387408

+1

>> No.9389209

Brinsley MacNamara

>> No.9389235

>>9387333
I was at uploaded Montagues short stories to bookzz, good stuff

>> No.9389241

Ernie O'Malley is the Ernst Jünger of Irish Nationalism. Prove me wrong

>> No.9389248

>>9387779

Seconding, I've only read "The Sea" what else by him is good?

>> No.9389322

Francis Stuart (Yeats son in law he called a cunt) Section H is a controversial classic

>> No.9389351

>>9387502
My dad worked for a man who is essentially that father, amazing how such a piece of shit can hold a family together