Irish writer

Emerald Isle penman

A person from Ireland who writes professionally—novels, poetry, plays, or other literary works.

Ireland has produced many celebrated writers, from Jonathan Swift to James Joyce to Sally Rooney.

The term often carries connotations of literary prestige, given Ireland's outsized contribution to English-language literature: She's an Irish writer living in Brooklyn.

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James Joyce · W.B. Yeats · Oscar Wilde · exile · identity · Jonathan Swift · playwriting · Samuel Beckett · folklore · satire · short story · Seamus Heaney · Book of Kells · Emerald Isle · essay · nationalism · memoir · George Bernard Shaw

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