Authors Born in Ireland

1

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

2

Sydney, Lady Morgan (1781-1859)

3

Cecelia Ahern, 40

4

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

5

Bram Stoker (1847-1912)

6

Jane Wilde (1821-1896)

7

John Boyne, 50

8

Suzanne Jackson, 37

9

James Joyce (1882-1941)

10

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

11

Eoin Colfer, 56

12

Cliona Kelly, 33

13

Derek Landy, 47

14

Aoibhe Devlin, 32

15

Lisa Jordan, 36

16

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

17

Pippa O'Connor, 36

18

Jodie Wood, 32

19

Rosie Connolly, 31

20

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

21

Louise Cooney, 29

22

Niamh Cullen, 29

23

Eimear Varian Barry, 34

24

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

25

Austin Clarke (1896-1974)

26

Maeve Binchy (1940-2012)

27

Erika Fox, 30

28

Eavan Boland (1944-2020)

29

James Henry (1798-1876)

30

Allen O'Donoghue, 44

31

Roddy Doyle, 63

32

Brendan Behan (1923-1964)

33

William Marsden (1754-1836)

34

Billy Roche, 72

35

Terence Devere White (1912-1994)

36

Thomas Mayne Reid (1818-1883)

37

Ashley Kehoe, 28

38

Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)

39

Graham Linehan, 53

40

Jessica Spencer, 27

41

Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)

42

Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)

43

Marian Keyes, 58

44

Michael Hartnett (1941-1999)

45

Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860)

46

Kerrie Mitchell Burke, 32

47

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

48

Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)