List Irish writers
You will find below a list of Irish writers, writers born in Ireland or having Irish nationality. The writers writing in language Irish E are also included there.
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Cecelia Ahern (1981 -), novelist
- John Banim (1798 - 1842), novelist
- Michael Banim (1796 - 1874), novelist
- John Banville (1945 -), novelist
- John Jules Barrish (1885 - 1939)
- Sebastian Barry (1955 -), novelist
- Hake Bateman
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), novelist, playwright
- Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964), novelist
- Maeve Binchy (1940 -), novelist
- Dermot Bolger (1959 -), novelist
- John Boyne (1971 -), novelist
- Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973), novelist
- Shan Bullock (1865 - 1935), novelist
- William Carleton (1794 - 1869), novelist
- Philip Casey (1950 -), novelist
- Austin Clarke (1896 - 1974), novelist
- Brian Cleeve (1921 - 2003), novelist
- Trevor J Colgan (1977 -), novelist
- Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972), novelist
- Seamus Deane (1940 -), novelist
- JP Donleavy
- Emma Donoghue (1969 -), novelist
- Roddy Doyle (1958 -), novelist
- Catherine Dunne (1954 -), novelist
- Maria Edgeworth (1767 - 1849), novelist
- Anne Marie Forrest (1967 -), novelist
- Carlo Gebler (1954 -), novelist
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774), novelist
- Gerald Griffin (1803 - 1840), novelist
- Hugo Hamilton (1953 -), novelist
- Dermot Healy (1947 -), novelist
- Seamus Heaney, poet, Nobel Prize of Literature (1995)
- Aidan Higgins (1927 -), novelist
- Desmond Hogan (1950 -), novelist
- Arlene Hunt (1972 -), novelist
- Jennifer Johnston (1930 -), novelist
- Neil Jordan (1950 -), novelist
- James Joyce (1882 - 1941), novelist
- Molly Keane (1904 - 1996), novelist (M.J. Farrel)
- Charles Kickham (1828 - 1882), novelist
- Benedict Kiely (1919 - 2007), Novelist
- C.S. Lewis (1899 - 1963), novelist
- Deidre Madden (-), novelist
- David Marcus (1924 -), novelist
- Patrick McCabe (1955 -), novelist
- Colum McCann (1965 -), novelist
- Barry McCrea (1974 - ), novelist
- John McGahern (1934 - 2006), novelist
- Robert McLiam Wilson
- Brinsley MacNamara (1890 - 1963), novelist (John Weldon)
- Charles Robert Maturin (1782 - 1824), novelist
- Brian Moore (1921 - 1999), novelist
- George Moore (1852 - 1933), novelist
- Lady Morgan (Sidney Owenson) (1776? - 1859), novelist
- Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), novelist
- Edna O' Brien (1932? -), novelist
- Blank O' Brien (1911 - 1966)
- Seán O' Casey (1880 - 1964)
- Joseph O' Connor
- Liam O' Flaherty (1896 - 1984), novelist
- Michael O' Neill
- Brian O' Nolan (1912 - 1966), novelist (known under the name of Blank O' Brien or Myles Na gCopaleen)
- Sean O' Reilly (1969 -), novelist
- Keith Ridgway (1965 -)
- TS O' Rourke (1968 -), novelist
- Glenn Patterson (1961 -), novelist
- Pádraig Pearse (1879 - 1916), novelist, poet
- Tom Phelan (1940 -), novelist
- James Plunkett (1920 - 2003), novelist
- Keith Ridgway (1965 -), novelist
- Frank Ronan (1963 -), novelist
- G.B. Shaw (1856 - 1950), playwright
- Somerville and Ross (Edith Somerville (1858 - 1949 Purple and Florence Martin (1862 - 1915), novelists
- Laurence Tern (1713 - 1768), novelist
- Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912), novelist
- Francis Stuart (1902 - 2000), novelist
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), novelist
- Colm Tóibín (1955 -), novelist
- William Trevor (1928 -)
- William Wall (1955 -), novelist
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), novelist, playwright