1. Charlotte Riddell (1832)

Irish Writer

One of the most successful and prolific writers of the Victorian era, this Irishwoman penned close to forty novels and several short story collections and also served as editor of...

2. Oscar Wilde (1854)

Irish Writer

Irish playwright, poet, and novelist who is best known for The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray. He is also famous for his memorable, witty epigrams.

3. Benedict Kiely (1919)

Irish Writer

Irish writer and broadcaster who was a journalist for the Irish Independent newspaper. His many short story collections and novels include The State of Ireland: A Novella and Seven Short...

4. Betty Miller (1925)

Irish Writer

American actress who was featured in Leon: The Professional, A League of Their Own, and Bringing Out the Dead.

5. Darren Shan (1972)

Irish Writer

Author who is best known for The Saga of Darren Shan, The Demonata, and other young adult fiction series. His works for older readers include The City Book Trilogy and...

6. John Banville (1945)

Irish Writer

Irish novelist who has won multiple awards and has been considered to be "one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in English" due to his forensic prose style and...

7. Billy Roche (1949)

Irish Writer

Irish author, playwright, and actor. His best-known works include his Wexford Trilogy of plays and a novel entitled Tumbling Down.

8. Anne Enright (1962)

Irish Writer

An Irish writer best known for The Gathering, she won both a Man Booker Prize and an Irish Novel of the Year Award. Her other notable works include The Portable...

9. Marian Keyes (1963)

Irish Writer

Irish novelist who won the 2009 Irish Book Award. As of 2014, she has sold over 22 million copies of her books worldwide.

10. Amanda Brunker (1974)

Irish Writer

Amanda Brunker is a novelist journalist/columnist with the Irish Sunday World tabloid newspaper and former Miss Ireland. After attending Mount Temple Comprehensive School she turned to modelling entering and winning...

11. Conor Woodman (1974)

Irish Writer

Conor Woodman is an Irish economist television presenter author and public speaker.

12. Mike McCormack (writer) (1965)

Irish Writer

Mike McCormack is an Irish novelist and short story writer. Though he has published a collection of short stories Getting It In the Head and two novels - Crowe's Requiem...

13. Thomas Kilroy (1934)

Irish Writer

Thomas F. Kilroy is an Irish playwright and novelist. He was born in Green Street Callan County Kilkenny and studied at University College Dublin. In his early career he was...

14. Morgan Llywelyn (1937)

Irish Writer

Morgan Llywelyn is an American-born Irish author best known for her historical fantasy historical fiction and historical non-fiction. Her fiction has received several awards and has sold more than 40...

15. Hugo Hamilton (writer) (Unknow)

Irish Writer

Hugo Hamilton is an Irish writer.

16. Gerald J. Tate (1954)

Irish Writer

Gerald J Tate is an Northern Irish Horror writer who is also a time served aircraft engineer.

17. Margaret Mulvihill (1954)

Irish Writer

Margaret Mulvihill is an Irish writer. She has published four novels and many works of non-fiction.

18. Clement Wilson (writer) (1976)

Irish Writer

Clement Wilson is a journalist author and travel writer. Born in Ireland he was educated at Glenalmond College and Trinity College Dublin and currently lives in Edinburgh. His journalism has...

19. Dermot Bolger (Unknow)

Irish Writer

Dermot Bolger is an Irish novelist playwright and poet born in Finglas a suburb of Dublin. His work is often concerned with the articulation of the experiences of working-class characters...

20. Desmond Hogan (1950)

Irish Writer

Desmond Hogan is an Irish writer.

21. Brian Keenan (writer) (Unknow)

Irish Writer

Brian Keenan CBE is an Irish writer whose work includes the book An Evil Cradling an account of the four and a half years he spent as a hostage in...

22. Ken Bruen (1951)

Irish Writer

Ken Bruen is an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction.

23. Gerard Beirne (1962)

Irish Writer

Gerard Beirne is an Irish author currently living in Canada. Beirne was the writer in residence for the 2008-2009 academical year at the University of New Brunswick where he currently...

24. Sebastian Barry (1955)

Irish Writer

Sebastian Barry is an Irish playwright novelist and poet. He is noted for his dense literary writing style and is considered one of Ireland's finest writers. Barry's literary career began...

25. Keith Ridgway (1965)

Irish Writer

Keith Ridgway is an Irish novelist. An award-winning author he has been described as a worthy inheritor of the modernist tradition in Irish fiction.

26. Patrick McCabe (novelist) (1955)

Irish Writer

Patrick McCabe is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Butcher...

27. Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (1883)

Irish Writer

Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha and his brother Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha were writers teachers and Irish language storytellers from County Kerry Ireland. Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha's most famous book written under the...

28. Rodney Orpheus (1960)

Irish Writer

Rodney Orpheus is a Northern Irish musician record producer writer lecturer and a leading member of the Thelemic organization Ordo Templi Orientis. He is known for his work with the...

29. Glenn Meade (Unknow)

Irish Writer

Glenn Meade is an Irish author. He was born in Finglas Dublin in 1957. He has written fiction and plays.

30. Seán Moncrieff (1961)

Irish Writer

Seán Moncrieff is an Irish broadcaster journalist and writer. He currently presents the weekday afternoon radio show Moncrieff on Newstalk. His television credits include his own Raidió Teilifís Éireann chat...

31. Jack Holland (writer) (1947)

Irish Writer

Jack Holland was an Irish journalist novelist and poet who built a reputation chronicling The Troubles in his native Northern Ireland. He published articles short stories four novels and seven...

32. Ruth Frances Long (1971)

Irish Writer

Ruth Frances Long also known as R. F. Long is an Irish author who writes in the fantasy and romance genres. She is the author of the young adult novel...

33. Stephen J. Martin (1971)

Irish Writer

Stephen J Martin is an Irish writer of contemporary comic fiction. Martin grew up in Raheny Dublin. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from Dublin City University. Having spent...

34. Olaf Tyaransen (1971)

Irish Writer

Olaf Tyaransen is an Irish author and journalist and is a contributing editor with Dublin's Hot Press magazine and the Evening Herald. His journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone Mojo...

35. Leland Bardwell (Unknow)

Irish Writer

Leland Bardwell is an Irish poet novelist and playwright. She was born in India to Irish parents and moved to Ireland at the age of two.

36. Charles Patrick Meehan (1812)

Irish Writer

Charles Patrick Meehan was an Irish Catholic priest historian and editor.

37. Cathal O'Byrne (1867)

Irish Writer

Cathal O'Byrne was an Irish singer poet and writer.

38. Amanda McKittrick Ros (1860)

Irish Writer

Anna Margaret Ross known by her pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros was an Irish writer. She published her first novel Irene Iddesleigh at her own expense in 1897. She wrote poetry...

39. Melesina Trench (1768)

Irish Writer

Melesina Trench was an Irish writer poet and diarist. During her lifetime she was known more for her beauty than her writing and it wasn't until her son Richard Chenevix...

40. Rita Ann Higgins (Unknow)

Irish Writer

Rita Ann Higgins Irish poet and playwright born 1955.

41. George Darley (1795)

Irish Writer

George Darley was an Irish poet novelist and critic.

42. Lennox Robinson (1886)

Irish Writer

Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson was an Irish dramatist poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre. Robinson was born in Westgrove Douglas in County Cork...

43. Willie Wilde (1852)

Irish Writer

'Willie' Charles Kingsbury Wilde was an Irish journalist and poet of the Victorian era and the older brother of Oscar Wilde.

44. Charles Anderson Read (Unknow)

Irish Writer

Charles Anderson Read was an Irish journalist novelist and anthologist.

45. Charlotte Brooke (Unknow)

Irish Writer

Charlotte Brooke born in Rantavan County Cavan Ireland was the author of Reliques of Irish Poetry. She was one of twenty-two children fathered by the writer Henry Brooke author of...

46. Aidan Mathews (Unknow)

Irish Writer

Aidan Mathews sometimes Aidan Carl Mathews is an Irish poet and dramatist born in Dublin.

47. Mary Eva Kelly (Unknow)

Irish Writer

Mary Eva Kelly was an Irish poet and writer who was widely known as Eva of the Nation. Born in Headford County Galway Ireland Kelly was educated privately with other...

48. Francis Gentleman (Unknow)

Irish Writer

s Gentleman was an Irish actor poet and dramatic writer of 18th century. He wrote several plays dramatic works poems and editor of Shakspeare's plays for the stage - Biographia...

49. Mary Anne Sadlier (Unknow)

Irish Writer

Mary Anne Sadlier was an Irish author. Born Mary Anne Madden in Cootehill Co. Cavan Ireland Sadlier published roughly sixty novels and numerous stories. She wrote for Irish immigrants in...

50. Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (1874)

Irish Writer

Tadhg Ó Donnchadha was an Irish writer poet editor translator and a prominent member of the Gaelic League and the Gaelic Athletic Association. He was editor of Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge...