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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.
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.
Jonathan Swift was born on 30 November 1667 in Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was the second child and only son of Jonathan Swift (1640–1667) and his wife Abigail Erick (or Herrick) of Frisby on the Wreake in Leicestershire. [4] His father was a native of Goodrich, Herefordshire, but he accompanied his brothers to Ireland to seek their ...
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
13 April 1906 in Foxrock, Dublin. 22 December 1989 in Paris, France. Literature. "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." [6] 1974. Seán MacBride. 26 January 1904 in Paris, France. 15 January 1988 in Dublin.
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.
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 ...