Irish literature

thumb|The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

theatre in Dublin, Ireland

writings from the island of Ireland

12th-century religious work

poem

theatre of Ireland

1180-84 Latin text by H. of Saltrey

poetry written by poets from the Island of Ireland

Columbanian monk and writer of hagiography

private literary museum on Parnell Square, Dublin

literary work

museum to James Joyce

mythical island in Irish mythology

library