Editing List of Irish people (section)

==== 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