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Irish Writers

JAMES JOYCE Perhaps Ireland’s best-known and most-loved wordsmith.		OSCAR WILDE Known for his legendary Irish wit and as a dramatist, and raconteur

PATRICK KAVANAGH Bright and boisterous poet Patrick Kavanagh was born to a shoemaker and small farmer in County Monaghan		SAMUEL BECKETT Existentialist, eccentric Samuel Beckett painted masterful, esoteric plays

BRENDAN BEHAN The son of staunch Republicans, he became enthusiastically involved in the IRA’s youth wing.		THOMAS MOORE Attended Trinity College following an easing of the anti-Catholic Penal Laws.

GEORGE B. SHAW Dramatist, critic, and intellectual George Bernard Shaw was left emotionally scarred by a Dublin childhood		FRANK O'CONNOR Short story master Frank O’Connor was the product of a poverty-stricken, alcohol- and violence-addled home

J. M. SYNGE J.M. Synge was perhaps the greatest dramatist of the Irish Revival		JONATHAN SWIFT Satirist, cleric, and humanitarian, he is probably best known for Gulliver's Travels.

FLANN O'BRIEN From the coming of the vikings to the 1916 rising, take a step back in time.		DISCUSSIONS Join in a discussion to talk about and debate Ireland's literary greats