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Irish Writers Team

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Welcome to the Irish Writers Team

This is part of the Notables Team which is part of the Irish Roots Topics Team which is part of the Irish Roots Project

Better pass boldly into that other world
In the full glory of some passion,
Than fade and wither dismally with age. James Joyce
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  • Goal: To create and maintain well sourced and well writen profiles of Irish Writers and related profiles and pages.
  • Responsibilities: Follow the guidelines of the Notables Project and the Ireland Project
  • What we do: Create and update Irish Writers profiles
  • Who should Join: Anyone interested in the Writers of Ireland
  • How to join: Send your request to Maria Maxwell or Rich Devlin It would be an asset if you are already a member of the Notables Project, but it is not required.
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  • Sources Ricorso, Wikipedia
Leader: TBA - for a full list of Members see Irish Roots Topics Team -
Member What you're working on or link your work page
Rich Devlin Creating list of names and linking to profiles
Michael Carey My 5x great grandfather is William Paulet Carey, his brothers Mathew and John and their siblings, their mother Meloria Sheridan, who is the daughter of Sir Thomas Sheridan DD, co-writer with Jonathon Swift, sister of Thomas Sheridan, actor, writer and the architect of "elocution", whose son id the famous dranaturg canon Richard Brindley Sheridan and his great grandson the Victorian gothic novelist Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu.

This list is not all notable writers with Wikipedia pages, all were born or raised in Ireland or hold Irish citizenship.

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Writers Notes
A
Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1829–1913) - Wikipedia Needs to be added
Robert William Alexander - Wikipedia Needs to be added
Richard Allen (abolitionist) - Wikipedia Bio needs to be re-written C&P from Wikipedia, Needs sources. connected
Robert Anderson (Scotland Yard official) (1841–1918) - Wikipedia needs to be entered
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey
John Anster
Mervyn Archdall (Irish antiquary)
Richard Archdekin
John Archer (physician)
Thomas Arthur (physician)
William Arthur (minister)
B
Alexander Baburin
William Frederick Bailey
F. Elrington Ball
Margaret Barrington (1896 - 1982) Wikipedia
Harry Barry
John Milner Barry
Bibi Baskin
William Bathe
Jonathan Beaumont
Brian Behan
Paudge Behan
Thomas Beirne (writer)
Robert Bell (writer)
Mark Bence-Jones
George Geary Bennis
Francis Bermingham
James Berry (writer)
Edel Bhreathnach
John Binns (journalist)
Gertrude Elizabeth Blood
Matthias Bodkin
Matthias McDonnell Bodkin
Charles Bourke
Edmund Bourke
Elizabeth Bowen needs research, bio, everything
Micheál Breathnach
John Brenan (physician)
James Herbert Brennan
John N. H. Brennan
Robert Brennan (journalist)
James Patrick Broderick
Stephen Brown (Jesuit)
John Ross Browne
Robert Eric Charles Browne
Anthony Bruodin
Ann Buckley
William Bulfin
Peadar de Burca
Francis Burke (Franciscan)
Kealan Patrick Burke
Oliver J. Burke
William Butler (British Army officer)
Francis John Byrne
Mary Elizabeth Byrne
Oliver Byrne (mathematician)
C
Charles Cameron (physician)
Aifric Campbell
Thomas Campbell (writer)
Richard Cantillon
Caolánn
John Carey Wikipedia
Mathew Carey [1]
William Paulet Carey (1759 - 1839) - Wikipedia
Richard Carmichael (physician)
Thomas Carnduff
Raymond Caron
John Carpenter (archbishop of Dublin)
Stephen Cullen Carpenter
Kevin Carroll (prosthetist)
Thomas Carve
Falkland Cary
Jane Casey
Caroline Grace Cassidy
Thomas Cawley
Patrick R. Chalmers
Liam Chambers
Lily Champ
Erskine Barton Childers
Molly Childers
Desmond Clarke (writer)
Benjamin Cleary
Ellen Mary Clerke
W. P. Coates
Martin Coen
John Colgan
Robert Collis
Columbanus
Marita Conlon-McKenna
Shane Connaughton
Thomas Connellan (priest)
Joel Conroy
Tim Pat Coogan
Matt Cooper (Irish journalist)
Tony Corcoran
Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave
Hugh Costello
Maurice Craig (historian)
Percy Redfern Creed
Cónal Creedon
Bernard J. Crehan
George Crolly
Paddy Crosbie
Raymond Crotty
Jeananne Crowley
Cruindmelus
Henry Crumpe
Cumméne Find
Alice Curtayne
D
Margaretta D'Arcy
Robert Daly (bishop)
John Daly (Fenian)
Kevin Danaher
Patrick D'Arcy
Declan de Barra
Aodh de Blácam
Deaglán de Bréadún
Éamon de Buitléar
Frank Deasy
Eamon Delaney
Patrick Delany (theologian)
Laurence Dermott
Samuel Derrick
John Derricke
Diarmaid the Just
Francis Dobbs
Charles Dod
Doncanus Hibernus
Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
Nehemiah Donnellan
Denis Donoghue (academic)
Mark Dooley
Jim Dougal
Gabriel Duffy
Myles Dungan
Ronald Ossory Dunlop
Lee Dunne
E
Thomas Richard England
Erinensis
F
Cyril Fagan
BP Fallon
Eamonn Fingleton
Finnian of Clonard
Finnian of Movilla
William FitzGerald (bishop)
Edward Fitzgibbon
Richard FitzRalph
Anthony Fox
Nicholas French
Dermot Freyer
Nicholas Furlong
G
William Gahan
Robert Gibbings
Skeffington Gibbon
Patricia Gibney
Ian Gibson (author)
Jack Stanley Gibson
Stephen Gilbert (novelist)
Karen Gillece
Benjamin Glazer
David Gleeson
Domhnall Gleeson
Alan Glynn
Oliver St John Gogarty
William Goodison (surgeon)
Cassern S. Goto
Bill Graham (author)
Thomas Colley Grattan
Alfred Perceval Graves
Hanna Greally
David H. Greene
Martin Greif
Edward Gwynn
Stephen Gwynn
H
John-Baptist Hackett
Charles Boynton Halpin (Halpine) (1829-1868), known in America as Charles Graham Halpine, wrote under the name 'Miles O'Reilly'. - Wikipedia - Charles G Halpine
Rev Nicholas John Halpin (1790-1850) - Wikipedia - Nicholas John Halpin
Newburgh Hamilton
James Hardiman
Francis Harold
Martin Haverty
Edward Hay (County Wexford)
Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy
Richard Head
James N. Healy
Mark Patrick Hederman
Wolfgang Heidenfeld
Sam Henry (musicologist)
Patrick Heron (author)
Christine Dwyer Hickey
Elizabeth Hickey
William Hickey (writer)
Alex Hijmans
Francis Clere Hitchcock
Bulmer Hobson
Edmund Hogan
James Francis Hogan
Edward Holland (priest)
Robert Holmes (barrister)
Joseph Hone
Joseph Maunsel Hone
C. Morton Horne
Thomas Joseph Hutchinson
I
Maeve Ingoldsby
J
John Jervis White Jervis
Charles Johnston (Theosophist)
Mannix Joyce
Patrick Weston Joyce
William Quan Judge
K
Colm Keane
Neville Keery
Thomas Keightley
Fergus Kelly
John Kelly (Irish broadcaster)
Christy Kenneally
Mary Kennedy
David Kenny (journalist)
David M. Kiely
John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken
Claire Kilroy
T. C. Kingsmill Moore
Percy Kirkpatrick
Conor Kostick
L
John Lanigan (historian)
Laurentius of Echternach
Kevin Lehane
Charles James Lever (writer) Wikipedia
Charles Leslie (nonjuror)
Peadar Livingstone
Bill Long (writer)
Martha Long
Stephen Lynch (Franciscan)
Richard Lynch (Jesuit)
Brendan Lynch (writer)
Patricia Lynch
F. S. L. Lyons
Genevieve Lyons
J. B. Lyons
Wesley Guard Lyttle
M
Mac an Bhaird
Séamus Mac an Iomaire
Seán Mac Brádaigh
Dorothy Macardle needs more research, inline citations
Fínghin mac Donncha Mac Carthaig
Muiris Mac Conghail
Seán mac Ruaidhri Mac Craith
Art Mac Cumhaigh
Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich
Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
Seosamh Mac Grianna
Mac Aodhagáin
Proinsias Mac Aonghusa
Mac Fhirbhisigh
John MacHale
Charles Henry Mackintosh
Tadhg Mac Lochlainn
John Henry MacMahon
Thomas MacNevin
Éamonn Mac Thomáis
Máire Mhac an tSaoi
Gerard Madden
Richard Robert Madden
Thomas More Madden
Kevin Maher (writer)
James Patrick Mahon
Mark Mahon (director)
Edmond Malone
Malsachanus
David Marcus
Emer Martin
F. X. Martin
Francis Martin (priest)
Harriet Evans Martin
Harriet Letitia Martin
Malachi Martin
Henry Joseph Monck Mason
Patrick Masterson
Sam McBratney
Alphie McCourt
Frank McCourt
Frank McDonald (journalist)
Henry McDonald (writer)
Michael McElhatton
James McIntosh (food writer)
Belinda McKeon
A. L. Mentxaka
Peter Millar (journalist)
John Michell
Charles Molloy (lawyer)
George Fletcher Moore
Maurice George Moore
John Moriarty (writer)
Francis Orpen Morris
Thomas Morrissey (historian)
Maurice Moynihan
Arthur Moyse
Brendan Muldowney
Michael George Mulhall
Allan Mullen
Pat Mullen
Clive Murphy
David Murphy (Irish writer)
Nick Vincent Murphy
John O'Kane Murray
Nicholas Murray (Presbyterian)
N
Cornelius Nary
Eoin Neeson
Áine Ní Cheanainn
Máire Ní Ghuairim
Caoilfhionn Nic Pháidín
Kenneth Nicholls
Sister Nivedita
Liam Nolan (writer)
Phillip Norreys
O
Malachy Ó Caollaidhe
Cú Chonnacht Ó Cianáin
Ó Cléirigh
Tomás Bán Ó Conceanainn
Ó Dálaigh
Ó Duibhgeannáin
Muiris mac Seaán Ulltach Ó Duinnshléibhe
Peadar Ó Gealacáin
Giolla Brighde Ó hEódhasa
Tuileagna Ó Maol Chonaire
Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh
Micheál Ó Mordha
Pól Ó Muiri
Diarmuid O Muirthile
Liam Ó Muirthile
Darach Ó Séaghdha
Micheál Ó Síoda
Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin
Henry O'Brien (classicist)
Manus O'Donnell
Charlotte Grace O'Brien
Conor Cruise O'Brien
George O'Brien (writer)
John O'Brien (bishop)
Kate Cruise O'Brien
Paddy O'Brien (musician and author)
Richard Baptist O'Brien
Richard Barry O'Brien
Leon Ó Broin
Gerald O'Carroll
Éamonn Ó Catháin
Seán Ó Cearnaigh
Éamonn Ó Ciardha
Micheál Ó Conghaile (writer)
Michael P. O'Connor (writer)
Charles O'Conor (historian)
O'Davoren
Patrick Denis O'Donnell
Edmund O'Donovan
Eimar O'Duffy
Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin
Seosamh Ó Duibhginn
Uilliam Ó Duinnín
Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty
Standish Hayes O'Grady
Standish James O'Grady
Eugene O'Growney
Peadar Ó Guilín
John O'Hagan
Mark O'Halloran
P. S. O'Hegarty
Mícheál Ó hEidhin
Seán Ó hEochaidh
Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh
Charles O'Kelly
Lorcán Ó Muireadais
Patrick J. O'Reilly (actor)
TS O'Rourke
Cathal O'Shannon
Hugh O'Shaughnessy
John Augustus O'Shea
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (writer)
Philip O'Sullivan Beare
James O'Sullivan (Irish academic)
Shane O'Sullivan (filmmaker)
Fintan O'Toole
Caesar Otway
Robert Owenson
P
John Henry Patterson (author)
Robert Patterson (Belfast)
Louisa Watson Peat
Peter Walsh (priest)
Petrus de Ibernia
Jim Phelan (Irish writer)
Charles Phillips (barrister)
William Pollard-Urquhart
Francis Porter
Sarah Poyntz
Rosamond Praeger
James Prior (surgeon)
Thomas Prior
Q
Carmel Quinn
R
Kevin Rafter
Martina Reilly
Hugh Reily
Nicholas Robinson (historian)
Ruairí Robinson
Kevin Rockett
J.P. Rodgers
Tomás Roseingrave
Thomas O'Neill Russell
Malise Ruthven
Donal Ryan
Mark F. Ryan
Ramor Ryan
S
David the Scot
Tadhg S. Seioghe
Mary J. Serrano
Michael Hobart Seymour
John Sheehan (journalist)
Betsy Sheridan [2]
Frances Sheridan [3] (playwright/ novelist)
John D. Sheridan
Joseph Thomas Sheridan_Le_Fanu [4]
Richard Brinsley Sheridan [5]
Sir Thomas Sheridan DD Wikipedia [6]

Anglican Divine, Poet and co-author with Jonathon Swift

Thomas Sheridan MA - wikipedia Playwright, Essayist, father of Richard Brindley Sheridan and husband of playwright and novelist Frances Sheridan. His daughters were also writers - Alicia, a playwright, and Betsy Sheridan a diarist.
Brendan Simms
Davy Sims
Philip Skelton
Charles Smith (topographer)
James Smith (Pennsylvania politician)
John Chaloner Smith
Annie M. P. Smithson
Sam Smyth
Dermot Somers
Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville
Duncan Sprott
Richard Stack
Enid Starkie
Gerard Stembridge
Bram Stoker
Sir Richard Sullivan, 1st Baronet
T
John "Pondoro" Taylor
William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor
Charles Teeling
William Teeling
Una Troy
Paolo Tullio
Colin R. Turner
Edward Twycross
Olaf Tyaransen
Peter Tyrrell
Bill Tyson
U
Bríd Uí Murchú
U
Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill
V
W
Luke Wadding
Peter Wadding
Joseph Cooper Walker
John Edward Walsh
Robert Walsh (Irish writer)
Mary Ward (scientist)
Dick Warner
Daniel Webb (writer)
Isaac Weld
Anthony C. West
Thomas Johnson Westropp
Diarmuid Whelan
Adrian White (author)
James White (art expert)
Terence de Vere White
Trevor White (food critic)
John Whitehead (theologian)
James Whitelaw
Thomas Wight (Bandon)
Theaker Wilder
Juanita Wilson
Thomas Woods (Irish diplomat)
George Newenham Wright
X
Y
Phil Young (writer)
Z




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