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Which three Nobel Prize winners for Literature were born in Greater Dublin?
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The three Nobel Prize winners for Literature who were born in Greater Dublin are:
- William Butler Yeats: Born in Sandymount, Dublin, in 1865, he received the Nobel Prize in 1923.12
- George Bernard Shaw: Born in Dublin in 1856, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.32
- Samuel Beckett: Born in Foxrock, County Dublin, in 1906, he received the Nobel Prize in 1969.42