Famous Irish Writers

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Famous Irish People
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Famous Irish People

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List of Irish people
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Irish people who were born on the island of Ireland and have lived there for most of their lives. Also included on the list are people who were not born in Ireland, but have been raised as Irish, have lived there for most of their lives or have adopted Irish citizenship (e.g., Daniel Day-Lewis).

A-Z By Occupation

Writers
Writing For a more comprehensive list, see List of Irish novelists
Writing - A to C
Cecil Frances Alexander
William Allingham - poet
John Banville - novelist
George Barrington
Sebastian Barry - novelist, Aosdána
Samuel Beckett - Saoi
Brendan Behan - playwright, novelist
Maeve Binchy - novelist
Dermot Bolger - novelist, Aosdána
Clare Boylan - Aosdána
Patrick Brontë - poet
Stephen Brown (author) - writer, bibliographer
J. B. Bury - historian
William Carleton - novelist
Marina Carr - Aosdána
Seathrún Céitinn (Geoffrey Keating)
Austin Clarke
Brian Cleeve - author
Brian Coffey - poet
Eoin Colfer - author
Flaithri O'Maolconaire - writer, translator
Eoghan Corry - journalist and author
Anthony Cronin - Aosdána
Writing - D to K
Thomas Osborne Davis - writer, poet
Seamus Deane - Aosdána
Eamon Delaney
Denis Devlin - poet
Roddy Doyle - novelist
Margaretta Eagar - memoirist
Garth Ennis - comic writer
Sir Samuel Ferguson - poet
Roderick Flanagan - Historian
Brian Friel - playwright, Aosdána
F. Scott Fitzgerald - ((novelist))
Oliver Goldsmith - novelist and dramatist
Oliver St. John Gogarty
Augusta, Lady Gregory - playwright and founder of the Abbey Theatre
Hugo Hamilton - author
Dermot Healy - Aosdána
Randolph Healy - Poet
Seamus Heaney - Saoi of Aosdána, Nobel Laureate
Aidan Higgins - Aosdána
Pat Ingoldsby - poet, playwright, television performer
Jennifer Johnston - Aosdána
Neil Jordan - author, film director, Aosdána
James Joyce - novelist
Trevor Joyce - poet
Herminie Templeton Kavanagh - author
Patrick Kavanagh - poet
Phil Kelly - author
Benedict Kiely - Saoi of Aosdána
Caitlín R. Kiernan - American novelist and paleontologist
Sister Margaret Anna Cusack - the "Nun of Kenmare", patriot and controversialist
Writing - L to P
Mary Lavin - Saoi of Aosdána
Francis Ledwidge - poet
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - gothic novelist
C. S. Lewis - author of the Chronicles of Narnia
Michael Longley - Aosdána
Seosamh Mac Grianna - Gaelic author
Walter Macken - novelist
James Clarence Mangan - poet
Malachi Martin - horror writer
Edward Martyn - playwright, art patron and political activist
Frank McCourt - writer
Martin McDonagh - playwright
John McGahern - novelist, Aosdána
Frank McGuinness - Aosdána
Gerard McKeown - writer
John Montague - poet
Thomas Moore - poet
Paul Muldoon - poet
Richard Murphy - poet, Aosdána
Christopher Nolan - poet, Aosdána
Edna O'Brien - novelist, Aosdána
Seán O'Casey - playwright
Frank O'Connor - short story writer
Ulick O'Connor - Aosdána
Máirtín Ó Direáin - Irish-language poet,Aosdána
Harry O'Donovan - scriptwriter
Seán Ó Faoláin - Saoi of Aosdána
Liam O'Flaherty - novelist, short story writer
Brian O'Nolan (aka Myles na gCopaleen - Flann O'Brien) - novelist/columnist
Philip O'Sullivan Beare- writer, historian
James Plunkett- Aosdána
Writing - R to Z
George William Russell - (known under the pen-name AE), writer and critic
Maurice Scully - poet
George Bernard Shaw - novelist, playwright
Richard Brinsley Sheridan - playwright
James Simmons - poet
Michael Smith - poet
Paul Smith - novelist, playwright
Annie M. P. Smithson - novelist
Geoffrey Squires - poet
Laurence Sterne - novelist
Bram Stoker - author of Dracula
Francis Stuart - Saoi of Aosdána
Jonathan Swift - Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, novelist and satirist
John Millington Synge - dramatist
William Trevor - writer, Aosdána
William Wall - novelist, poet
Oscar Wilde - novelist, poet, satirist
William Butler Yeats - poet and Nobel laureate