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James Joyce. 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 ...
Q–Z. Christina Reid (1942–2015) Lennox Robinson (1886–1958) Billy Roche (born 1949) Sally Rooney (born 1991) G. Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Peter Sheridan (born 1952) sraka pierdaka. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) George Shiels (1881–1949)
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 ...
Frank McCourt was born in New York City's Brooklyn borough, on August 19, 1930, the eldest child of Irish Catholic immigrants Malachy Gerald McCourt, Sr. (October 11, 1899 – January 11, 1985), of Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, who was aligned with the IRA during the Irish War of Independence, and Angela Sheehan (January 1, 1908 – December 27, 1981) from Limerick.
W. B. Yeats. 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 founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
Angela Bourke (born 1952), writer, historian, interested in folklore. Eva Bourke, German-born Irish poet since c.1985. Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), novelist, short story writer, author of Eva Trout. Sarah Bowie, Irish illustrator and writer. Clare Boylan (1948–2006), journalist, critic, novelist, short story writer.
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish [1] satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, [2] hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan[1] (christened Francis Behan) [2] (/ ˈbiːən / BEE-ən; Irish: Breandán Ó Beacháin; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican, [3] an activist who wrote in both English and Irish. His widely acknowledged alcohol dependence, despite ...