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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) : Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, best known for his novel Gulliver's Travels
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) : Anglo-Irish writer and poet, best remembered for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, and his play She Stoops to Conquer
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) : novelist and short story writer, best known as the author of the Gothic novel Dracula
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) : writer and poet, known for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and his plays Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) : playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics. Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) : poet and playwright. He was the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1923)
James Joyce (1882-1941): novelist and poet, one of the most influential writers in the 20th century. Author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) : one of the foremost poets of the 20th century. Works include the novel Tarry Flynn and the poem Raglan Road
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) : avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. Lived in Paris and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969
Brendan Behan (1923-1964) : poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright. Works include include The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy
Seamus Heaney (born 1939) : foremost 20th-century poet and playwright. Harvard and the Oxford Professor of Poetry. 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature