/lit/ - Literature

>>8366827
Wilde, Yeats, Swift, Burke, Beckett and probably a few others were Anglo-Irish

Joyce, Heaney, Flann O' Brian, Merriman, Raftery, and Ó Cadhain were Gaelic Irish

CS Lewis was an Ulster Scot I think as was James Orr, I'm sure they've a couple others under their belt.

Tinkers obviously have nothing.

>This is why I don't get this anti-Brit mentality except, like a lot of others things admittedly, we steal from them.
I'm not one to lament the history of the English in Ireland (besides the damage done to the language I don't give a shit) but I don't think that's a fair assessment. If anything it would be the Anglos stealing from our mythology, though that's not fair either since they identified with the Irish nation which had been multi-confessional since at least 1798, and multi-ethnic since much much earlier.

>That's all well and good, but you know that without the British cultural impact on these people there would be fuck all good literature from this wee country.
Fuck all English language literature, sure. I won't speculate on what could have been because that's pointless but if you look before the 18th century the vast majority of Irish literature belonged to the Gaelic, Catholic classes. Even after the Irish aristocracy had been banished the majority of high culture was gaelic in nature, as were the artistic classes. By the late 18th century the Anglo-Irish started to take over, largely due to the extreme poverty and illiteracy among the Catholic population.

>>8265733
/s4s/ beag, déarfainn. Tá beirt nó triúir ann atá liofa, ar laghad. Tá Ultach ann atá liofa agus duine eile ó Ghaillimh. Ní fhaca mé riamh éinne as cúige Mumhan. B'fhéidir gur eisean >>8262802
duine astu.

Níl Gaeilge a'am ó dhúchais ach is féidir liom labhairt go minic.

>B'fheidir is an canúint é?
Is dócha.

>>8265742
there's a rake of us on /lit/. I blame Joyce.

>>8247773
Don't forget the celtic shit my dude.

Táin Bó Cuailnge
Agallamh na Seanórach
Leabhar Gabhála Éireann
Buile Suibhne
Tóraíocht Dhiarmada agus Gráinne

Are the most important for Irish/Scottish literature. There's tonnes more if you like these.

As for Welsh/Breton/Cornish

the Mabinogion
the book of Taliesin
Culhwych and Olwyn
Peredur (better known as Perceval)
Everything by Chretien de Troyes

For history and other "non-fiction" (a lot of it is completely fictional but they didn't know better back then) read

Geoffrey of Monmouth
Giraldus Cambrensis
The Annals of Ulsters
Annals of the Four Masters
Cogad Gáedel Re Gallaib
Adam of Usk