Famous Irish Authors

1) Jonathan Swift – Birthplace: Dublin (1667 - 1745)

2) Oscar Wilde - Birthplace: Dublin (1854 – 1900)

3) James Joyce – Birthplace: Dublin (1882 - 1941)

4) William Butler Yeats – Birthplace : Dublin (1865 – 1939)

5) Samuel Beckett – Birthplace: Dublin (1906 – 1989)

6) Oliver Goldsmith – Either Co. Longford or Co. Roscommon (1730-1774)

7) Frank McCourt – Birthplace:Brooklyn, NY (1930)

8)  George Bernard Shaw – Birthplace: Dublin (1856 – 1950)

9) J.M. Synge – Birthplace: Dublin (1871 – 1909)

10) Roddy Doyle – Birthplace: Dublin (1958)

11) Seamus Heaney – Birthplace: Northern Ireland (1939)