This famous Irish writers list includes the most famous authors from Ireland. These are considered to be the most legendary novelists, poets, and playwrights - the best Irish writers of all time. This list of famous Irish authors is alphabetical and can be sorted by any column.
Who are the most famous Irish authors? Many of the names on this list, like Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker, you've probably heard of, but there are many other famous Irish authors you may not yet have discovered. Check out the list below to find your new favorite Irish author or rediscover a writer you've forgotten. You can also click on an author name for an author bibliography to start reading.- 1Dracula, The Lair of the White Worm, The Lady of the Shroud
- 2Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake
- 3
Thomas Kinsella
Louis le Brocquy Táin illustrations, Oxford Book of Irish Verse, Marginal Economy - 4Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, Correspondence
- 5The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, The importance of being Earnest and other plays
- 6Angela's Ashes, 'Tis: A Memoir, Teacher Man
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Liam O'Flaherety
- 8Waiting for Godot, The Unnamable, Murphy
- 9The Story of Lucy Gault, Fools of fortune, Two Lives
- 10AE in the Irish Theosophist, Vale and other poems, The living torch
- 11Borstal Boy, The Hostage, The Quare Fellow
- 12Object lessons, Three Irish Poets, After Every War
- 13Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Plays: pleasant and unpleasant
- 14The apostle, The passing of the Essenes, A flood
- 15Teatro Irlandes, Letters to Molly, Travels In Wicklow
- 16Tarry Flynn, Gaff Topsails, No earthly estate
- 17The Commitments, The Van, Click
- 18The Cure at Troy, The Burial at Thebes, The Haw Lantern
- 19Juno and the Paycock, Rose and crown, The letters of Sean O'Casey
- 20Memoirs, A Vision, The Countess Cathleen
- 21Zoo, The dark tower, The collected poems of Louis MacNeice
- 22Ormond, Castle Rackrent, The Absentee
- 23
Medbh McGuckian
On Ballycastle Beach, Shelmalier, The Flower Master - 2420th Century Irish Poems, Poems, 1963-1983
- 25The Vicar of Wakefield, She Stoops to Conquer, Beau Nash
- 26As I Was Going Down Sackville Street, I Follow St. Patrick, The collected poems of Oliver St. John Gogarty
- 27A Treasury of Irish Folklore, The story of King Arthur and other Celtic heroes, Great Myths of the World
- 28Moy Sand and Gravel, The prince of the quotidian, Quoof
- 29
Seán Ó Faoláin
Newman's way, The Talking Trees, The Irish - 30
William Allingham
The Ballad Book, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland 1869, Sixteen Poems - 31At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor
- 32The Country Girls, Oh! Calcutta!, Girl with Green Eyes
- 33Dancing at Lughnasa, Philadelphia, Here I Come!
- 34Words in the Air, Journalism, Night-crossing
- 35The Heat of the Day, The Last September, Eva Trout
- 36The Big Fellow, The Cornet Player Who Betrayed Ireland, An Only Child AND My Father's Son
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James Stephens
- 38Maud Cotter, Faber Book of Irish Verse, The figure in the cave and other essays
- 39A Book of Saints and Wonders, Seven Short Plays, Cuchulain of Muirthemne
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Liam O'Flaherty
The Informer, Thy Neighbour's Wife, Return of the Brute - 41The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Mere Christianity
- 42Sally from Cork, Long ears, Die verrückten OHaras. ( Ab 10 J.)
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Patrick McCabe
The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, Mondo Desperado - 44
Maurice Walsh
Trouble in the Glen, L'Homme tranquille, The honest fisherman - 45
Walter Macken
The silent people, God Made Sunday and Other Stories, Quench the Moon - 46
Mary Larkin
Playing With Fire, A Matter of Trust, Best Laid PlansBorn in 1930's Belfast, Mary has written twelve best selling novels all set in and around the Belfast of old. - 47
Aidan Sheridan
BooksWrote a book. Sold millions. - 48Tara Road, Nights of rain and stars, C'était pourtant l'été
- 49Dublin Carol, This Lime Tree Bower: Three Plays, The WeirPlaywright.
- 50By the Bog of Cats, The Mai, On Raftery's HillPlaywright.
- 51Watermelon, Rachel's holiday, The Worst Noel: Hellish Holiday Tales
- 52Shroud, The Book of Evidence, The Sea
- 53The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Next of Kin, The Thief of Time
- 54James Joyce's Odyssey, More Parkhurst Tales, The Celts
55Patrick Taylor
An Irish Country Doctor, An Irish Country Girl, An Irish Country Wedding- 56The Riddle of the Sands, The road to Suez, Challenges to the United Nations
