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Born September 12, 1907 • Northern Ireland
Died September 3, 1963 (aged 55) • London • England
Notable Works “Blind Fireworks” • “Letters from Iceland”
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
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Derek Mahon
Northern Irish poet and translator
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
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Harold Pinter
British dramatist
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Spike Milligan
Irish writer and comedian
Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke
Henry Brooke
Irish author
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Anne Ridler
British writer
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Lennox Robinson
Irish playwright
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Patrick Kavanagh
Irish poet
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Terence Tiller
British writer
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Donagh MacDonagh
Irish author
Colum, Padraic
Padraic Colum
Irish-born American poet
Friel, Brian
Brian Friel
Irish playwright
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Bill Naughton
British playwright
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Saint John Ervine
British dramatist
Marlowe or not Marlowe?
Christopher Marlowe
English writer

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