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Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
Edmund Burke
Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher (1729–1797)
Bram Stoker
Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
Thomas Moore
Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Irish-British politician, playwright and writer (1751-1816)
William Congreve
British writer (1670-1729)
Seán O'Casey
Irish writer (1880–1964)
Elizabeth Bowen
Anglo-Irish novelist and diarist (1899–1973)
Maeve Binchy
Irish novelist (1939–2012)
Sheridan Le Fanu
Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814–1873)
Roddy Doyle
Irish author
Christy Brown
Irish artist (1932-1981)
Margaret Mazzantini
Italian writer and actress
Peter Brown
Irish historian (1935- )
Tana French
American-Irish writer and theatrical actress
John Connolly
Irish author
Nahum Tate
Anglo-Irish poet and playwright (1652–1715)
Sydney, Lady Morgan
Irish novelist (1781? – 1859)
Vincent Arthur Smith
Irish historian and indologist (1843–1920)
Michael Scott
Irish author and collector and editor of folklore (born 1959)
Fenton John Anthony Hort
Irish-born British Anglican theologian (1828–1892)
Cecil Frances Alexander
British hymn-writer and poet
Oliver St John Gogarty
Irish physician, writer and politician (1878-1957)
Anna Maria Hall
Irish novelist (1800-1881)
Eavan Boland
Irish poet
Dionysius Lardner
Irish science writer (1793–1859)
Graham Linehan
Irish comedy writer (born 1968)
Edward Dodwell
Irish traveller, writer, and painter (1767-1832)
Hugo Hamilton
Irish writer
Jennifer Johnston
Irish writer
John Denham
English poet and courtier
Lee Cronin (director)
Lee Cronin is an Irish filmmaker. He is best known for directing horror films such as The Hole in the Ground (2019), Evil Dead Rise (2023), and Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026).
Thomas Parnell
Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet.
Enda Walsh
Irish playwright (born 1967)
James Clarence Mangan
Irish poet (1803–1849)
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Irish playwright and librettist
Henry Dodwell
Irish theologian
Willie Wilde
Irish journalist and poet (1852–1899)
Eleanor Hull
English writer, journalist and scholar of Old Irish (1860–1935)
Patricia Moyes
British mystery writer (1923–2000)
Fred Halliday
Irish writer and academic (1946-2010)
George Egerton
Anglo-Australian writer and feminist
Paul Murray
Irish writer
Charles Lever
Irish writer (1806-1872)
Austin Clarke
Irish writer (1896–1974)
Micheál Mac Liammóir
Irish actor (1899-1978)
Samuel Lover
Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter (1797-1868)
Dominic Behan
Irish writer (1928-1989)
John McGahern
Irish writer (1934-2006)
Alfred Perceval Graves
Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter, and school inspector (1846–1931)
Richard Robert Madden
Irish doctor, writer, abolitionist and historian (1798–1886)
Fionnuala Sweeney
Northern Irish television journalist
Emma Dabiri
Irish television and radio presenter, writer and researcher
Thomas Amory
Irish author
Bernard Burke
British officer of arms and genealogist (1814–1892)
Lorna Byrne
Irish writer
Robert Anderson
British police officer (1841-1918)