Irish male poets

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)

Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)

Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician (d. 1774)

Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)

Irish Catholic philosopher and theologian (c. 800 – c. 877)

Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore (1871-1909)

Irish-British politician, playwright and writer (1751-1816)

Irish revolutionary, shot by the British Army in 1916

Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright (1923-1964)

Irish novelist and writer (born 1955)

Irish writer and dramatist (1878-1957)

Irish nationalist, poet, journalist and 1916 Easter Rising leader

Irish-born British poet (1904–1972)

Irish artist (1932-1981)

Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona (; , Adomnanus; 624 – 704), also known as Eunan ( ; from ), was an abbot of Iona Abbey ( 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the Life of Columba (), probably written between 697 and 700. This biography is by far the most important surviving work written in early-medieval Scotland, and is a vital source for our knowledge of the Picts, and an insight into the life of Iona and the early-medieval Gaelic monk.

Irish playwright, author and nationalist politician (1879-1920)

Anglo-Irish poet and playwright (1652–1715)

Dicuilus (Gaelic: ; fl.814–825 A.D.) was an Irish monk, astronomer, geographer and author born during the second half of the 8th century, possibly in the Hebrides. He travelled the Frankia around the turn of the 9th century and was involved with the Carolingian Renaissance under Louis the Pious. He was the author of astronomical and cosmographical treatises during the early 9th century, an example of Hiberno-Latin culture.

Irish teacher, Latin grammarian and scriptural commentator

Irish man of letters and poet (1824-1889)

Irish writer (1881-1972)

Irish-American writer

Irish author (1882-1950)

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Irish politician (1838-1903)

Irish poet (1791-1823)

Irish writer (1798–1842)

Irish playwright and novelist (born 1955)

Irish nationalist, journalist, poet and Australian politician (1816-1903)

Irish poet, barrister and antiquarian (1810-1886)

Irish painter and president of the Royal Academy (1769–1850)

Irish philanthropist (1819–1886)

Irish poet

Irish writer, poet, translator and publisher (1928–2021)

Irish poet (1910-1988)

Irish poet (1803–1849)

Irish writer (1947-2014)

Irish writer and activist (1814-1845)

Irish journalist and poet (1852–1899)

Irish-born novelist, poet and playwright (1803 – 1840), author of the novel The Collegians

Irish poet and author (1965-2009)

Irish monk and poet

High King of Ireland

Saint Comgall (c. 510–520 – 597/602), an early Irish saint, was the founder and abbot of the great Irish monastery at Bangor in Ireland.

Irish poet

Irish poet and critic (1814–1902)

Irish writer (1896–1974)

Irish teacher, poet, Bishop of Fiesole and saint

Irish actor (1899-1978)

Dungal (fl. 811–828) was an Irish monk, teacher, astronomer, and poet. He was to live at Saint-Denis, Pavia, and Bobbio.

Irish dramatist (1784-1862)

Irish writer (born 1953)

Irish writer

Irish writer (1886-1958)

Irish writer

Irish poet (1944–2025)

Irish poet

Irish king