Category
page 120th-century Irish women writers

Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)

Veronica Guerin
Irish crime reporter (1958-1996)
Ethel Lilian Voynich
British writer and musician (1864–1960)

Augusta, Lady Gregory
Irish playwright, poet, folklorist (1852-1932)
Anne Enright
Irish writer (born 1962)

Maeve Binchy
Irish novelist (1939–2012)

Margaret Mazzantini
Italian writer and actress
Maud Gonne
Irish revolutionary and activist (1866-1953)

Emma Donoghue
Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian
Lucinda Riley
Irish writer (1965–2021)
Margaret Cousins
Irish-Indian suffragist and feminist
Bridget Dowling
Adolf Hitler's sister-in-law via her marriage to Alois Hitler, Jr.
Dervla Murphy
Irish touring cyclist and writer (1931–2022)
Jennifer Johnston
Irish writer
Kate O'Brien
Irish novelist, playwright and activist (1897–1974)
Katherine Kurtz
American fantasy writer
L. T. Meade
Irish writer, editor (1844–1914)
Hilda Petrie
British egyptologist and archaeologist (1871-1956)
Mary Nash
Irish historian
Peig Sayers
Irish writer (1873–1958)

Aisling Walsh
Irish writer and film director

Nuala O'Faolain
Irish writer (1940–2008)
Pauline McLynn
Irish actress
Bithia Mary Croker
Irish writer (1847–1920)
Orla Guerin
Irish journalist
Elizabeth Christitch
Irish journalist and Serbian patriot; married Serbian military officer
Maeve Brennan
Irish writer (1917–1993)
Louie Bennett
Irish suffragist
Mary Brück
Irish astronomer (1925–2008)
Ella Young
Irish-American writer
Philomena Lynott
Irish author
Fionnuala Sweeney
Northern Irish television journalist
Cathy Kelly
Irish writer
Marina Carr
Irish playwright (born 1964)
Jane Barlow
Irish novelist and poet
Christina Noble
Irish human rights activist
Mabel Bent
Anglo-Irish explorer, excavator, writer and photographer (1847-1929)
Margaretta Eagar
imperial nanny in Russia

Maud Joynt
Irish Celtic scholar and linguist
Annie Patterson
Irish composer and organist
Clare Boylan
Irish writer (1948–2006)
Beatrice Grimshaw
Irish-born writer and traveller (1870-1953)
Patricia Lynch
Irish writer
Bríd Mahon
Irish writer, journalist and folklorist

Louisa Emily Dobrée
French-Irish writer (ca. 1852–1917)
Deborah Alcock
British-Irish author of historical fiction on religious themes
Norah Richards
Irish playwright

Ellice Pilkington
Irish women's activist and artist
Molly Keane
Irish writer (1904-1996)
Ellen Mary Clerke
Irish writer
Emily Lawless
Irish novelist and poet
Mary Lavin
Irish writer (1912–1996)

Johanna Harwood
Irish screenwriter

Mary Mulvihill
Irish scientist, radio television presenter, author and educator
Annie French Hector
writer (1825–1902)

Christine Dwyer-Hickey
novelist
Clotilde Graves
Irish and play writer author (1863–1932)
Dorothea Conyers
Irish novelist

Julia O'Faolain
Irish writer