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Eoghan Daltun (born 1967), rewilding advocate. Helen Dillon (born 1940), gardener. Diarmuid Gavin (born 1964), gardener. Marcus Hartog (1851–1924), natural historian. William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), natural historian. Miles McMullan (born 1967), author of wildlife guide books. Dermot O'Neill (living), gardener.
13 June 1865. Died. 28 January 1939. (1939-01-28) (aged 73) Awards. Nobel Prize in Literature (1923) William Butler Yeats[a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory ...
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde[a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his ...
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer 's Odyssey ...
This is a list of notable poets with Wikipedia pages, who were born or raised in Ireland or hold Irish citizenship. Abbreviations for the languages of their writings: E: English; F: French; I: Irish (Gaeilge); L: Latin; R: Russian
A 2017 analysis of library holdings data revealed that Swift is the most popular Irish author, and that Gulliver’s Travels is the most widely held work of Irish literature in libraries globally. [62] The first woman to write a biography of Swift was Sophie Shilleto Smith, who published Dean Swift in 1910. [63] [64]
John Banville (born 1945) Sebastian Barry (born 1955) Colin Bateman (born 1962) Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Brendan Behan (1923–1964) Gerard Beirne (born 1962) Maeve Binchy (1940–2012) Dermot Bolger (born 1959) Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
Culture of Ireland. Irish literature is literature written in the Irish, Latin, English and Scots (Ulster Scots) languages on the island of Ireland. The earliest recorded Irish writing dates from back in the 7th century and was produced by monks writing in both Latin and Early Irish, including religious texts, poetry and mythological tales.