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Born October 16, 1944 • Dublin • Ireland
Died May 17, 2025 (aged 80) • Dublin • Ireland
Awards And Honors Costa Book Awards (1990)
Notable Works “Daddy, Daddy” • “Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil” • “Life Is a Dream” • “Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have My Being” • “The Laughter of Mothers”
Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
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John Banim
Irish author
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
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
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
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
Colm Toibin stands in a narrow cobblestone alleyway in Mantova, Italy, wearing a gray jacket and black shirt with his hands in his pockets.
Colm TĂłibĂ­n
Irish author
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon
Northern Irish poet
AE
AE
Irish poet
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Thomas Kinsella
Irish poet
Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Moore
Irish author and composer
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Eavan Boland
Irish poet and literary critic
Mangan, James Clarence
James Clarence Mangan
Irish writer
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Derek Mahon
Northern Irish poet and translator
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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Louis MacNeice
British poet
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Lennox Robinson
Irish playwright
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Patrick Kavanagh
Irish poet
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George Darley
British author

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