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This is a list of writers either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship, who have a Wikipedia page. Writers whose work is in Irish are included. Writers whose work is in Irish are included. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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.
The literary movement was associated with a revival of interest in Ireland's Gaelic heritage and the growth of Irish nationalism from the middle of the 19th century. The poetry of James Clarence Mangan and Samuel Ferguson and Standish James O'Grady's History of Ireland: Heroic Period were influential in shaping the minds of the following generations. [1]
Edna O'Brien, Ireland's literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast ...
TRIBUTE: The death of Edna O’Brien at the age of 93 brings an end to the long reign of one of Ireland’s greatest writers, who attracted both controversy and adulation throughout her ...
This is a list of novelists either born on the island of Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. Novelists whose work is in Irish are included as well as those whose work is in English. A–C
Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787. Ossian (/ ˈ ɒ ʃ ən, ˈ ɒ s i ən /; Irish Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: Oisean) is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), [1] and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian.
Kevin Barry (born 1969) is an Irish writer. He is the author of three collections of short stories and four novels. City of Bohane (2011) was the winner of the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable annual literary fiction prize for books published in English.