updated 20 Nov. 2003
CHAPTERS
1 | The Media
2 | Technology
3 | Education
4 | Gender Roles
5 | United Kingdom?
6 | Politics GB
7 | Minorities GB
8 | Postcolonial Exp.
9 | Ireland
10 | Politics USA
11 | American Dream
12 | American Frontier
13 | New York / South
14 | Los Angeles
15 | Religion/USA
16 | Melting Pot
SPECIAL FEATURES
SF 1 | Music & the Arts
SF 2 | Young People
SF 3 | Britain - Europe
SF 4 | Class / GB
SF 5 | Health & Wealth
SF 6 | USA - World
SF 7 | Values USA
SF 8 | Civil Rights
SF 9 | Religion GB
Chapter 9: Ireland
Irish Literature: download texts
James Joyce (texts and links)
Brian Moore,
Lies of Silence
[Langenscheidt Catalogue]
Seamus Heaney: "All Ireland's Bard" (an essay on the importance of W. B. Yeats: "W. B. Yeats mirrored Ireland's divisions in his self-divisions -- yet saw the island as a single cultural entity sprung from common roots in common myths" - publ. Nov. 1997 in
The Atlantic
)
Seamus Heaney: Poetry is "a scruffy fighting place" (a salon.com feature, 1996)