Irish Authors in Chronological Order

 

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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Laurence (Lawrence) Sterne (1713 - 1768)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
Brian Merriman (1747 - 1805)
Maria Edgeworth (1767 - 1849)
Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912)
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1925
Edith Anna Oenone Somerville (1858 - 1949)
Martin Ross {Violet Florence Martin} (1862 - 1915)
W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865 - 1939)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923
James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
Sean O'Faolain (1900 - 1991)
Frank O'Connor (1903 - 1966)
Molly Keane (1904 - 1996)
Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1969
Flann O'Brien (1911 - 1966)
William Trevor (1928)
Brian Friel (1929)
Eugene McCabe (1930)
Frank McCourt (1931)
Edna O'Brien (1932)
John McGahern (1934)
Seamus Heaney (1939)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1995
Maeve Binchy (1940)
Seamus Deane (1940)
Bernard MacLaverty (1942)
John Banville (1945)
Patrick McGrath (1950)
Sebastian Barry (1955)
Patrick McCabe (1955)
Brendan O'Carroll (1955)
Roddy Doyle (1958)
Dermot Bolger (1959)
Joseph O'Connor (1963)
Robert McLiam Wilson (1966)