Bloody Sunday

1. 'Bloody Sunday' may be ineligible for Oscar: Los Angeles Times, November 15, 2002
2. 'Bloody Sunday' is a powerfully effective docudrama: Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 15, 2002
3. Awards for Bloody Sunday film: Derry Journal, November 1, 2002
4. When a peaceful protest turns deadly: Baltimore Sun, November 1, 2002
5. Fiery 'Bloody Sunday' traces Irish tragedy: Miami Herald, November 1, 2002
6. Bloody Sunday, Dallas Morning News, November 1, 2002
7. Recreating a bloody day in British history: Toronto Star, October 26, 2002
8. The story that needed to be told: Montreal Gazette, October 26, 2002
9. A day of madness made real in gripping 'Bloody Sunday': Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2002
10. 'Bloody Sunday' from all sides; Director aimed for balanced look at massacre of Irish protesters: San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 2002
11. 'Bloody' good re-creation of a horrific historic moment: Boston Globe, October 11, 2002
12. The day Derry's streets ran red: New York Daily News, October 5, 2002
13. 'Bloody Sunday' film wins Golden Bear: The Independent, February 18, 2002
14. Bloody Sunday screens in Berlin: BBC, February 7, 2002
15. March remembers Bloody Sunday: BBC, February 3, 2002
16. Bloody Sunday 30 years on: BBC, January 30, 2002
17. Bloody Sunday film to reach US: BBC, January 22, 2002
18. Bloody Sunday film wins US award for best world cinema: Electronic Telegraph, January 21, 2002
19. The Irish question - James Nesbitt: The Guardian, October 27, 2001

In America

1. 'America'; Irish director Jim Sheridan struggled 10 years with raw emotions and memories to craft a movie that brought him home again: Dallas Fort Worth Star-Telegram, January 4, 2004
2. Magic beyond the blarney: Toronto Globe & Mail, November 26, 2003
3. Charming Illegal Aliens Facing Family Upheaval: New York Times, November 26, 2003 (reg. required)
4. 'In America' director a walking, rambling narrative: Chicago Tribune, November 23, 2003 (reg. required)
5. 'In America' release to guarantee maximum exposure: Irish Echo, November 19, 2003
6. Sweet-natured tale: Irish Echo, November 19, 2003

Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape, Gate Theatre, Dublin

1. Reviews - Krapp's Last Tape - Gate Theatre, Dublin: The Irish Times, September 6, 2001
2. He plays Krapp so well it Hurts: The Sunday Times, September 2, 2001
3. I'll go on; Beckett: The Irish Times, August 9, 2001

Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy

1. The Quare Fellow: Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2002
2. 'Borstal Boy' Translates Irish Memoir to the Screen: Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2002
3. 'Borstal Boy' resemble 'Potter': Irish Echo, February 27, 2002
4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in Jail: New York Times, February 24, 2002

Dermot Bolger's The Valparaiso Voyage

1. Ned Kelly ... the sale that brings the past into focus: Belfast Telegraph, April 4, 2002
2. Carey wins Booker for novel about Ned Kelly: The Irish Times, October 18, 2001
3. Robin Hood of the Outback: New York Times, January 7, 2001
4. Why Ned was born to run: The Sunday Times, January 7, 2001

Ciaran Carson's Shamrock Tea

Philip Casey's The Fisher Child

Ultan Cowley's The Men Who Built Britain: a Celebration of the Irish Navvy

1. Role of the Irish navvy in Britain documented: The Irish Times, January 21, 2002
2. Reputation of Irish navvy denegrates a worthy man: Belfast Telegraph, November 29, 2001

Brian Friel's play Faith Healer, London

The Glenstal Book of Prayer: A Benedictine Prayer Book

1. Prayer Guidebook Surprise Best Seller: Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 21, 2001
2. Prayer book's popularity suggests sinners may return to the fold: Sydney Morning Herald, July 31, 2001
3. Monks pray over the Celtic Tiger's grave: Sunday Independent, July 22, 2001
4. Glenstal little book of prayers rises up list of best-sellers: Irish Independent, July 12, 2001

Tom Hayden's Irish On the Inside

1. 'Irish on the Inside': Waiting for O'Lefty: New York Times, February 23, 2002
2. Green Thoughts: Washington Post, February 17, 2002
3. A rebel and a dreamer: (from Irelandclick.com), January 11, 2002
4. Homeward Bound; Tom Hayden: Los Angeles Times, January 6, 2002
5. An Irish radical looks back; Tom Hayden: Irish Voice, October 31, 2001

James Joyce's "The Dead", from Dubliners

1. Revisiting The Dead: The Irish Times, October 22, 2001
2. Conquering the shadows from James Joyce's 'The Dead': Boston Globe, September 2, 2001

Patrick Kavanagh, poet

John B. Keane, playwright and novelist

1. John B. Good: The Irish Times, July 21, 2001
2. You’ve got to hand it to John B, says Gaiety director: Irish Examiner, July 17, 2001
3. Keane has the write stuff, Listowel, County Kerry: Sunday Business Post, July 1, 2001

William Kennedy's Roscoe

1. Another Kennedy rascal, complicated and lovable - "Roscoe": Irish Echo, April 17, 2002
2. Saving the Irish soul - Writers, scholars look beyond stereotype in S.F. festival: San Francisco Chronicle, March 7, 2002
3. The Soul of a Political Machine: National Public Radio's The Connection, January 30, 2002
4. The Last Hurrah: Washington Post, January 27, 2002

Walter Macken, novelist

Kate McCafferty's Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl

1. Exploring varieties of servitude - Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl: Chicago Tribune, March 24, 2002
2. Slavery's other legacy: Novel examines little-known history of Irish in servitude: Boston Herald, March 15, 2002
3. Testimony; to the long arm of empire: Boston Globe, March 10, 2002

Frank McCourt

1. Another Memoir For McCourt: CBS News, April 24, 2002
2. Reflections on Creative Writing Class by Frank McCourt: New York Times, April 14, 2002
3. Learning to Write from Frank McCourt: New York Times, April 14, 2002
4. Growing Up With the McCourts: Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2002

John McGahern's By the Lake

1. Weddings and Wakes - 'By the Lake' by John McGahern: Washington Post, March 24, 2002
2. The Birds of Ireland Don't Sing; They Cry, 'This Is Mine': New York Times, March 22, 2002
3. 'By the Lake': Coming Home to Ireland: New York Times, March 17, 2002
4. BOOK REVIEW: By the Lake: Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 17, 2002

John McGahern's That They May Face The Rising Sun

1. Lyrical mystery of existence, John McGahern: Sunday Independent, January 13, 2002
2. A new dawn - That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern: The Guardian, January 12, 2002
3. The whole world in a community; interview with John McGahern: The Guardian, January 6, 2002
4. Everything under the sun: The Observer, January 6, 2002
5. Ireland's rural elegist - John McGahern profile: The Guardian, January 5, 2002
6. That They May Face The Rising Sun by John McGahern: The Independent, January 5, 2002
7. A light in the darkness, John McGahern: Sunday Independent, December 30, 2001
8. Why John McGahern would never tell a lie: Irish Independent, December 22, 2001

1. Hilarious, poignant, barbed and brilliant: Toronto Globe and Mail, October 20, 2001
2. Bernard MacLaverty - Q&A: The Times, September 17, 2001
3. Is The Anatomy School Bernard MacLaverty's best novel so far?: Belfast Telegraph, September 1, 2001

Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys

1. Swimming against the tide: Irish Echo, April 24, 2002
2. 'At Swim, Two Boys': Fusing Irish and Gay Liberation: New York Times, March 17, 2002
3. The Great Irish (Gay) Novel: Toronto Globe and Mail, November 10, 2001

John Millington Synge's play Playboy of the Western World

1. Playboy is simply reviewed: Sunday Business Post, July 22, 2001
2. Getting physical with the ghosts of 'The Playboy': The Irish Times, July 14, 2001
3. Peg of my heart — Current and forthcoming productions of "Playboy of the Western World": The Irish Times, March 15, 2001

Maurice Walsh's The Quiet Man

1. The quiet man and the big fellow: The Irish Times, December 8, 2001
2. New look for Quiet Man: BBC, November 7, 2001
3. Searching for John Ford: Irish America Magazine, Oct-Nov 2001

Oscar Wilde

1. The importance of being Oscar: Irish Echo, September 26, 2001
2. Wilde 'a strong nationalist': Sunday Independent, September 16, 2001
3. Displaying All of Oscar Wilde's Many Sides: New York Times, September 12, 2001

Niall William's The Fall of Light

William Butler Yeats

1. Going wild for Yeats: The Irish Times, August 1, 2001
2. Political uses of poet's language highlighted: The Irish Times, July 31, 2001
3. Students from around the world flock to Yeats school: Irish Independent, July 30, 2001