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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
- 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.
- We use Category:Ireland, Writers, the sticker {{Notables Sticker|Ireland, Notables}}, {{Occupation|image= Irish_Writers_Team-1.jpg|text= was an Irish Writer (see [[Space:Irish_Writers_Team|Irish Writers Team]]).}} and other stickers from Space:Ireland_Badges_Templates_and_Stickers
- 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 |
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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 |
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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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