What's Buzzworthy: Your Favorite Irish Writers

BuzzSugar — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:44:07 -0700

Well, hopefully you've recovered from your St. Patrick's Day festivities by now and can turn your attention to your "Irish writers to read" list. Thanks to everyone's excellent suggestions to my BuzzWorthy challenge from last week, your list of poets, playwrights, novelists, and memoir-writers should be getting longer. Of all the works by Irish writers submitted by BuzzSugar readers, here are my favorites. Thanks for playing!

Bram Stoker, Dracula
I had no idea Bram Stoker was Irish, so thanks to swwonder for informing us about that.

Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot
Selected by SaraSmile, who calls this play, "Weird and wonderful. Worth reading a few times until you appreciate it. Absurdism at its finest."

For two other great reads, read more

Seamus Heaney, District and Circle
Thanks to Linda McP for this, "The latest poems from Seamus Heaney, a wonderful Irish poet."

Flannery O'Connor, Collected Works
According to Nancita, "O'Connor could really write the hell out of a short story."

What's Buzzworthy? Irish Writers

BuzzSugar — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:51:25 -0700

Hooray for St. Patrick's Day falling on a Saturday this year! In addition to watching Irish movies and partying with Yum and PartySugar, I thought now would be a good time to consider the works of some great Irish writers.

I have some old standbys, like Frank McCourt, who wrote Angela's Ashes, and Maeve Binchy, author of Circle of Friends. For this week's Buzzworthy challenge, I'd love to find out which Irish writers are your favorites. They don't have to be novelists or memoir-writers either: Oscar Wilde was Irish, and W.B. Yeats is one of the world's greatest poets - in my humble opinion.

Using BuzzSugar's cool Buzzworthy bookmarking tool, just find the books you love on the Web, bookmark them as Buzzworthy, and tag or title your choices with the phrase Irish writers. Then, I'll post the readers' favorites next week.

To find out how to create a Buzzworthy bookmark, read more

Don't worry: TeamSugar makes it easy to bookmark and capture anything on the Web that you consider "Buzzworthy." If you already have a "That's Fab" button on your browser's tool bar, you can use that to bookmark your Buzzworthy items. If you don't have the TeamSugar bookmarking button on your toolbar, you can learn how to get it by watching this video.