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Irish Writers

By Carlos Cabezas

  • Jonathan Swift

    Jonathan Swift
    Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist. His best known work, Gulliver's Travels, is a scathing critique of human society, in a style so distinctive that it has been dubbed "Swiftian."

  • Bram Stoker

    Bram Stoker
    Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish novelist and writer, best known for his novel Dracula.

  • Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Wilde
    Wilde is considered one of the leading playwrights of late Victorian London; In addition, he was a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, his short stories, his plays, his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his untimely death.

  • George Bernard Shaw

    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw, known at the author's request as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist whose influence on Western theater, culture, and politics stretches from 1880 to the present day.

  • William Butler Yeats

    William Butler Yeats
    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright. Wrapped in a halo of mysticism, he was one of the most representative figures of the Irish literary renaissance and one of the founders of the Abbey Theater. He also served as a senator. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

  • Elizabeth Bowen

    Elizabeth Bowen
    Bowen was born in Dublin. His family used to spend their summers at Bowen’s Court, a family estate in County Cork. When his father began to suffer from mental problems in 1907, Bowen and his mother moved to England, settling in Hythe, Kent. After the death of his mother in 1912, Bowen went to live with his aunts: the experience of orphanhood was very present in his novels.

  • Samuel Beckett

    Samuel Beckett
    Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, novelist, critic and poet, one of the most important representatives of 20th century literary experimentalism, within Anglo-Saxon modernism.

  • Seamus Heaney

    Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney ​ fue un escritor y profesor irlandés.​ Recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1995.

  • James Joyce

    James Joyce
    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish writer, world renowned as one of the most important and influential of the 20th century, acclaimed for his masterpiece, Ulysses (1922) , and for his controversial later novel, Finnegans Wake (1939). Likewise, the series of short stories entitled Dubliners (1914), as well as his semi-autobiographical novel Portrait of the Adolescent Artist (1916), has been highly valued.

  • C.S Lewis

    C.S Lewis
    Clive Staples Lewis,was a Christian apologist,medievalist and British writer, recognized for his works of fiction,especially for his series The Chronicles of Narnia.He was also a literary critic,Oxford University academic at Magdalen College,and Northern Irish radio host. Lewis wrote fictional novels such as Letters from the Devil to His Nephew and the Cosmic Trilogy with Christian apologetic themes, and apologetic essays such as Mere Christianity,Miracles, and The Problem of Pain, among others.