Editing List of Irish people (section)

==== 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]]