WRITERS from Ireland’s county GALWAY
Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928) Born in Galway city, Ó Conaire was a pioneering Irish-language writer and one of the first…
WRITERS from Ireland’s county KERRY
John B. Keane (1928-2002) Born in Listowel, Keane was a playwright, novelist, and essayist whose works captured rural Irish life…
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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…
WRITERS from Ireland’s county TIPPERARY
Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn) (c. 1569-c. 1644) Born near Burgess, Tipperary, Keating was a priest,…
WRITERS from Ireland’s county TYRONE
William Carleton (1794-1869) Born near Clogher, Tyrone, Carleton was a novelist and short-story writer whose…