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Irish satirical poets (3 P) Pages in category "Irish satirists" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Land of the Dead, a satire of post-9/11 America state and of the Bush administration; The Wicker Man, a satire on cults and religion; The Great Dictator, a satire on Adolf Hitler; Monty Python's Life of Brian, a satire on miscommunication, religion and Christianity; The Player, a satire of Hollywood, directed by Robert Altman
Emma Dabiri (living) author, academic, and broadcaster; Edith Newman Devlin (1926–2012) author and academic; Julia Kavanagh (1824–1877), biographer and social scientist; Malachy McCourt (living), actor and politician; Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1856–1937), memoirist; Thomas O'Crohan (1856–1937), biographer (in the Irish language)
Maguire was born in Ireland but now lives in London. [17] A Labour supporter, she opened at the Labour Party Conference for then leader Ed Miliband. [18] In 2016 Maguire used Twitter to live-tweet her menstrual cycle to Taoiseach Enda Kenny in protest at Ireland’s abortion laws, the coverage of which appeared major international newspapers, and Maguire was interviewed on BBC Worldwide, and ...
Howard is a record five-time Irish Book Award winner, collecting the Best Popular Fiction prize in 2007 for Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade, in 2010 for The Oh My God Delusion, in 2013 for Downturn Abbey (each parts of the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series), Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 2016 for the biography of Tara Browne, "I Read the News Today, Oh Boy" and a Special Recognition Award for ...
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (pronounced [ˈeːlʲiːʃ n̠ʲiː ˈɣɪvʲnʲə]; born 22 February 1954), also known as Eilis Almquist and Elizabeth O'Hara, is an Irish novelist and short story writer who writes both in Irish and English. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and is a recipient of the Irish PEN Award.
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is a satirical fictional Irish character, a wealthy South County Dublin rugby union jock created by journalist Paul Howard. [1] [2] The character first appeared in a January 1998 column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper and later transferred to The Irish Times. The series comprises twenty-one novels, three plays, a CD, two ...
Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ ˈ b ɛ k ɪ t / ⓘ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish-born writer of novels, plays, short stories and poems.His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense.