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Irish folklorists

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William Butler Yeats
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
Douglas Hyde
first President of Ireland; historian, poet, and folklorist (1860-1949)
Augusta, Lady Gregory
Irish playwright, poet, folklorist (1852-1932)
Liam O'Flaherty
Irish writer (1896–1984)
Jane Wilde
Irish poet and writer, editor (1821–1896)
Michael Scott
Irish author and collector and editor of folklore (born 1959)
Padraic Colum
Irish writer (1881-1972)
James Stephens
Irish author (1882-1950)
William Wilde
Irish surgeon and writer (1815-1876)
Peter Henry Emerson
British writer and photographer (1856–1936)
Frances Browne
Irish writer (1816–1879)
Samuel Ferguson
Irish poet, barrister and antiquarian (1810-1886)
Thomas Crofton Croker
Irish antiquary and artist (1798–1854)
William Carleton
Irish writer (1794–1869)
Thomas Keightley
Irish writer on mythology and folklore (1789-1872)
Eleanor Hull
English writer, journalist and scholar of Old Irish (1860–1935)
Gerald Griffin
Irish-born novelist, poet and playwright (1803 – 1840), author of the novel The Collegians
Ella Young
Irish-American writer
Samuel Lover
Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter (1797-1868)
Alfred Perceval Graves
Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter, and school inspector (1846–1931)
Sinéad de Valera
wife of Eamon de Valera (1878–1975)
Ethna Carbery
Irish journalist, writer and poet (186x–1902)
Samuel Carter Hall
Irish-born Victorian journalist (1800-1889)
Jeremiah Curtin
American folklorist (1835–1906)
Seán Ó hEinirí
Irish seanchaí
Juliana Horatia Ewing
English writer of children's stories
Benedict Kiely
Irish writer (1919–2007)
Bríd Mahon
Irish writer, journalist and folklorist
John O'Hanlon
Irish cleric and poet (1821-1905)
Standish James O'Grady
Irish historian and writer (1846–1928)
Letitia McClintock
Irish writer and folklorist
Seumas MacManus
Irish poet