The Harden Library
Leaving Certificate “texts” prescribed for comparative study, for examination in the year 2019.
All items are available in the school library. Audio versions are available for some texts.
(*Indicates listing for “One text for study on its own”.)
Fiction -- Novel
Americanah * (H/O)
Persuasion * (H/O)
The Handmaid’s Tale * (H/O)
Circle of Friends
Wuthering Heights
Room * (O)
Silas Marner
The Great Gatsby * (O)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Next Step in the Dance
Foster
Death and Nightingales
Star of the Sea
Nineteen Eighty Four
The Damned Utd
The Spinning Heart * (O)
The Sound of Things Falling
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
by Jane Austen
by Margaret Atwood
by Maeve Binchy
by Emily Bronte
by Emma Donoghue
by George Eliot
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
by Neil Gaiman
by Tim Gautreaux
by Claire Keegan
by Eugene McCabe
by Joseph O’Connor
by George Orwell
by David Peace
by Donal Ryan
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
by Oscar Wilde
Autobiography / Memoir
It’s Not Yet Dark
Touching the Void
by Simon Fitzmaurice
by Joe Simpson
Drama
By the Bog of Cats * (H/O)
A Doll’s House
Big Maggie
A Skull in Connemara
All My Sons
Macbeth * (H/O)
The Tempest
Antigone
The Playboy of the Western World * (O)
Harden Library, The King’s Hospital
http://www.kingshospital.ie/harden-library
by Marina Carr
by Henrik Ibsen
by John B. Keane
by Martin McDonagh
by Arthur Miller
by William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
by Sophocles
by J. M. Synge
March 2017
The Harden Library
Film
Brooklyn
Unforgiven
About Elly
Rear Window
Les Misérables
Juno
Directed by John Crowley
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Directed by Asghar Farhadi
Directed by Alfred Hitchkock
Directed by Tom Hooper
Directed by Jason Reitman
Documentary
Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story Directed by Alex Holmes
Graphic Novel (Memoir)
Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
Poets
(Higher Level)
Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Brendan Kennelly,
D.H. Lawrence, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Sylvia Plath, William Butler Yeats.
(Ordinary Level)
W. H. Auden, Patricia Beer, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Moya
Cannon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Martin Dyar, Tess Gallagher, Kerry Hardie,
Randolph Healy, Seamus Heaney, Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ted
Hughes, Brendan Kennelly, D. H. Lawrence, Rachel Loden, Gabriela Mistral, Eilean
Ni Chuilleanain, Mary O’Malley, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Smither, William Butler
Yeats, Benjamin Zephaniah.
Harden Library, The King’s Hospital
http://www.kingshospital.ie/harden-library
March 2017