Editing List of Irish people (section)

==== 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