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Frank O’Connor

Irish author

Seamus Heaney

Irish poet

Brendan Behan

Irish author

Thomas Kinsella

Irish poet

Micheál MacLiammóir

actor, scenic designer, and playwright

Derek Mahon

Northern Irish poet and translator

Louis MacNeice

British poet

Standish James O’Grady

Irish author

Dallán Forgaill

Irish poet

Kuno Meyer

German scholar

Rudolf Thurneysen

German linguist

Michael Banim

Irish author

John Banim

Irish author

Edith Somerville

Irish writer

Violet Martin

Irish writer

Samuel Ferguson

Irish writer

James Joyce

Irish author

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

William Butler Yeats

Irish author and poet