Editing List of Irish people (section)

=== Writing ===
{{main list|List of Irish novelists}}

==== Writing – A to C ====

* [[Cecelia Ahern]] 
* [[William Allingham]] – poet
* [[John Banville]] – novelist
* [[George Barrington]]
* [[Sebastian Barry]] – novelist
* [[Samuel Beckett]]<ref name="TheGuardian">{{cite news |title=The Top 100 Books of All Time |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/08/books.booksnews |access-date=27 March 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=8 May 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bloom |first1=Harold |title=The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & Company |location=NY/San Diego/London |isbn=978-1-57322-514-4 |pages=493–514 |chapter=Beckett…Joyce…Proust…Shakespeare}}</ref>  – novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, author of ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''  and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]]
* [[Brendan Behan]] – playwright, novelist
* [[Maeve Binchy]] – novelist
* [[Dermot Bolger]] – novelist
* [[Patrick Brontë]] – poet
* [[Stephen Brown (author)|Stephen Brown]] – writer, bibliographer
* [[J. B. Bury]] – historian
* [[William Carleton]] – novelist
* [[Austin Clarke (poet)|Austin Clarke]]
* [[Josephine Fitzgerald Clarke]] – author
* [[Brian Cleeve]] – author
* [[Brian Coffey]] – poet
* [[Eoin Colfer]] – author
* [[Laura Angela Collins]] – author 
* [[Frederick William Conway]] – editor and journalist
* [[Eoghan Corry]] – journalist and author
* Sister [[Margaret Anna Cusack]] – the "Nun of Kenmare", patriot and controversialist

==== Writing – D to K ====
* [[Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)|Thomas Osborne Davis]] – writer, poet
* [[Seamus Deane]] – [[Aosdána]]
* [[Patrick Deeley]] – poet
* [[Eamon Delaney]]
* [[Frank Delaney]]
* [[Greg Delanty]] – poet
* [[Denis Devlin]] – poet
* [[Roddy Doyle]] – novelist
* [[Margaretta Eagar]] – [[memoir]]ist
* [[Garth Ennis]] – comic writer
* Sir [[Samuel Ferguson]] – poet
* [[Roderick Flanagan]] – historian
* [[Philip Flattisbury]] – compiler
* [[Brian Friel]] – playwright, Aosdána
* [[Oliver St. John Gogarty]]
* [[Oliver Goldsmith]] – [[novelist]] and [[dramatist]]
* [[Augusta, Lady Gregory]] – playwright and founder of the [[Abbey Theatre]]
* [[Hugo Hamilton (writer)|Hugo Hamilton]] – author
* [[Dermot Healy]] – Aosdána
* [[Randolph Healy]] – poet
* [[Seamus Heaney]]<ref name="Bloom1">{{cite book |last1=Bloom |first1=Harold |title=The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & Company |location=NY/San Diego/London |isbn=978-1-57322-514-4 |page=555}}</ref> – [[Saoi]] of Aosdána, Poet and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]]
* [[Aidan Higgins]] – Aosdána
* [[Anthony Holten]] – author
* [[Pat Ingoldsby]] – poet, playwright, television performer
* [[Jennifer Johnston (novelist)|Jennifer Johnston]] – Aosdána
* [[Neil Jordan]] – author, film director, Aosdána
* [[James Joyce]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bloom |first1=Harold |title=The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & Company |location=NY/San Diego/London |isbn=978-1-57322-514-4 |pages=413–432 |chapter=Joyce’s Agon with Shakespeare}}</ref> – novelist, author of ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]''<ref name="TheGuardian" />
* [[Trevor Joyce]] – poet
* [[Herminie Templeton Kavanagh]] – author
* [[Patrick Kavanagh]] – poet
* [[John B. Keane]] – playwright, novelist and essayist 
* [[Benedict Kiely]] – [[Saoi]] of [[Aosdána]]
* [[Caitlín R. Kiernan]] – American novelist and paleontologist
* [[Anatoly Kudryavitsky]] – poet

==== Writing – L to P ====
* [[Derek Landy]] – ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant]]'' series
* [[Mary Lavin]] – Saoi of Aosdána
* [[Sheridan Le Fanu|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]] – gothic novelist
* [[Francis Ledwidge]] – poet
* [[C. S. Lewis]] – author of the ''Chronicles of Narnia''
* [[Michael Longley]] – Aosdána
* [[Seosamh Mac Grianna]] – Gaelic author
* [[Oliver MacDonagh]] – historian
* [[Walter Macken]] – novelist
* [[James Clarence Mangan]] – poet
* [[Malachi Martin]] – horror writer
* [[Edward Martyn]] – playwright, art patron and political activist
* [[Frank McCourt]] – writer
* [[Martin McDonagh]] – playwright
* [[Hugh McFadden (poet)|Hugh McFadden]] – poet and critic
* [[John McGahern]] – novelist, [[Aosdána]]
* [[Lisa McGee]] – playwright, screenwriter, creator of ''[[Derry Girls]]''
* [[Frank McGuinness]] – Aosdána
* [[Paula Meehan]] – poet
* [[John Montague (poet)|John Montague]] – poet
* [[Thomas Moore]] – poet
* [[Paul Muldoon]] – poet
* [[Richard Murphy (poet)|Richard Murphy]] – poet, Aosdána
* [[Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill]] – poet
* [[Christopher Nolan (author)|Christopher Nolan]] – poet, Aosdána
* [[Edna O'Brien]]<ref name="Bloom1" /> – [[novelist]], Aosdána
* [[Seán O'Casey]]<ref name="Bloom2">{{cite book |last1=Bloom |first1=Harold |title=The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & Company |location=NY/San Diego/London |isbn=978-1-57322-514-4 |page=553}}</ref> – playwright
* [[Frank O'Connor]] – short story writer
* [[Ulick O'Connor]] – Aosdána
* [[P.G. O'Dea]] – playwright
* [[Máirtín Ó Direáin]] – Irish-language poet, Aosdána
* [[Peadar O'Donnell]] – novelist, autobiographer and revolutionary
* [[Harry O'Donovan]] – scriptwriter
* [[Dennis O'Driscoll]] – poet
* [[Seán Ó Faoláin]] – [[Saoi]] of Aosdána
* [[Liam O'Flaherty]] – novelist, short story writer
* [[Finghin O Mathghamhna]] – medieval translator and scribe 
* [[Brian O'Nolan]] (aka Myles na gCopaleen – Flann O'Brien)<ref name="Bloom1" /> – novelist, columnist
* [[Philip O'Sullivan Beare]] – writer, historian
* [[James Plunkett]] – [[Aosdána]]
* [[Katherine Purdon]] – Irish writer

==== Writing – R to Z ====
* [[Sally Rooney]] – novelist, screenwriter 
* [[Gabriel Rosenstock]] – poet
* [[George William Russell]] –  writer and critic
* [[Michael Scott (Irish author)|Michael Scott]] – novelist, screenwriter, folklorist, author of ''[[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel]]''
* [[Maurice Scully]] – poet
* [[Darren Shan]] – novelist, author of ''[[The Saga of Darren Shan]]''
* [[George Bernard Shaw]]<ref name="Bloom2" />  – novelist, playwright, author of ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'' and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]]
* [[John D. Sheridan]] – short story writer and humorist
* [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]] – playwright
* [[James Simmons (poet)|James Simmons]] – poet
* [[Michael Smith (poet)|Michael Smith]] – poet
* [[Paul Smith (Irish writer)|Paul Smith]] – novelist, playwright
* [[Annie M. P. Smithson]] – novelist
* [[Geoffrey Squires]] – poet
* [[Laurence Sterne]]<ref name="Bloom3">{{cite book |last1=Bloom |first1=Harold |title=The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & Company |location=NY/San Diego/London |isbn=978-1-57322-514-4 |pages=537–538}}</ref>  – novelist, author of ''[[Tristram Shandy]]''<ref name="TheGuardian" />
* [[Bram Stoker]]<ref name="Bloom4">{{cite book |last1=Bloom |first1=Harold |title=The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & Company |location=NY/San Diego/London |isbn=978-1-57322-514-4 |page=544}}</ref> – author of ''[[Dracula]]''
* [[Francis Stuart]] – [[Saoi]] of [[Aosdána]]
* [[Jonathan Swift]]<ref name="Bloom3" /> – Dean of [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin|St Patrick's Cathedral]], [[Dublin]], novelist and [[satirist]], author of ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''<ref name="TheGuardian" />
* [[John Millington Synge]]<ref name="Bloom2" /> – [[dramatist]]
* [[William Trevor]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wood |first1=James |title=The best books since 1945 |work=The Guardian |date=7 October 1994 |pages=29–30}}</ref> – writer, Aosdána
* [[William Wall (writer)|William Wall]] – novelist, poet
* [[Oscar Wilde]]<ref name="Bloom4" />  – novelist, poet, satirist, author of ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]''
* [[Macdara Woods]] – poet
* [[Maev-Ann Wren]] – writer
* [[William Butler Yeats]]<ref name="Bloom2" /> – poet, playwright and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]]