WRITERS from Ireland’s county DUBLIN
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Born in Dublin, Swift was a satirist, poet, and cleric, best known for Gulliver’s Travels (1726), a…
WRITERS from Ireland’s county FERMANAGH
Shaun F. Bullock (1865-1935) Born in County Fermanagh, Bullock was a novelist known for his pastoral works, particularly By Thrasna…
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WRITERS from Ireland’s county LIMERICK
Kate O’Brien (1897-1974) Born in Limerick city, O’Brien was a novelist and playwright whose…
WRITERS from Ireland’s county LONGFORD
Oliver Goldsmith (c. 1728-1774) Born in Pallas, near Abbeyshrule, Goldsmith was a novelist, poet, and…
WRITERS from Ireland’s county MAYO
George Augustus Moore (1852-1933) Born in Moore Hall, near Ballyglass, Moore was a novelist, poet,…
WRITERS from Ireland’s county MEATH
Mary Lavin (1912-1996) Born in East Walpole, Massachusetts, but raised in Bective, Meath, Lavin was…
WRITERS from Ireland’s county MONAGHAN
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) Born in Inniskeen, Kavanagh was a poet and novelist, one of Ireland’s…
WRITERS from Ireland’s county OFFALY
Coscrach of Birr (fl. c. 650) Born in Birr, Coscrach was an early Irish poet…
WRITERS from Ireland’s county ROSCOMMON
Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) Douglas Hyde, also known by his pen name “An Craoibhín Aoibhinn,” was…
WRITERS from Ireland’s county SLIGO
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Born in Sandymount, Dublin, but raised in Sligo, W.B. Yeats was…