Maeve BinchyW
Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy Snell was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker. Her novels were characterised by a sympathetic and often humorous portrayal of small-town life in Ireland, and surprise endings. Her novels, which were translated into 37 languages, sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and her death at age 73, announced by Vincent Browne on Irish television late on 30 July 2012, was mourned as the death of one of Ireland's best-loved and most recognisable writers.

Marina CarrW
Marina Carr

Marina Carr is a prolific Irish playwright. She has written almost thirty plays, including By the Bog of Cats (1998) which was revived at the Abbey Theatre in 2014.

Juanita CaseyW
Juanita Casey

Juanita Casey was a poet, playwright, novelist and artist as well as a horse and zebra trainer and breeder. Her writing celebrates her time in Ireland and the New Forest.

Máirín CreganW
Máirín Cregan

Máirín Cregan was an Irish nationalist who was involved in the 1916 Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence. She later made her name writing for children, as well as writing plays and novels for adults.

Geraldine CumminsW
Geraldine Cummins

Geraldine Dorothy Cummins (1890–1969) was an Irish spiritualist medium, novelist and playwright. She began her career as a creative writer, but increasingly concentrated on mediumship and "channelled" writings, mostly about the lives of Jesus and Saint Paul, though she also published on a range of other topics.

Suzanne R. DayW
Suzanne R. Day

Suzanne Rouviere Day (1876–1964) was an Irish feminist, novelist and playwright. She founded the Munster Women's Franchise League, was one of Cork's first women poor-law guardians and served a support role in both World Wars.

Clotilde GravesW
Clotilde Graves

Clotilde Augusta Inez Mary Graves, known as Clo. Graves, was an Anglo-Irish author who wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Dehan, becoming a successful playwright in London and New York City.

Augusta, Lady GregoryW
Augusta, Lady Gregory

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. Lady Gregory produced a number of books of retellings of stories taken from Irish mythology. Born into a class that identified closely with British rule, she turned against it. Her conversion to cultural nationalism, as evidenced by her writings, was emblematic of many of the political struggles to occur in Ireland during her lifetime.

Elizabeth GriffithW
Elizabeth Griffith

Elizabeth Griffith, sometimes also credited Elizabeth Griffiths, was an 18th-century Welsh-born dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, who lived and worked in Ireland.

Mary Manning (writer)W
Mary Manning (writer)

Mary Manning Howe Adams was an Irish novelist, playwright and film critic.

Nell McCaffertyW
Nell McCafferty

Nell McCafferty is an Irish journalist, playwright, civil rights campaigner and feminist. In her journalistic work she has written for The Irish Press, The Irish Times, Sunday Tribune, Hot Press and The Village Voice.

Janet McNeillW
Janet McNeill

Janet McNeill was a prolific Irish novelist and playwright. Author of more than 20 children's books, as well as adult novels, plays, and two opera libretti, she was best known for her children's comic fantasy series My Friend Specs McCann.

Paula MeehanW
Paula Meehan

Paula Meehan is an Irish poet and playwright.

Iris MurdochW
Iris Murdoch

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, the Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Áine Ní GhlinnW
Áine Ní Ghlinn

Áine Ní Ghlinn is a bilingual Irish journalist, poet, playwright and children's writer. She is the current Laureate na nÓg, 2020—2022, the first to write exclusively in Irish.

Máiréad Ní GhrádaW
Máiréad Ní Ghráda

Máiréad Ní Ghráda was an Irish poet, playwright, and broadcaster born in Kilmaley, County Clare.

Edna O'BrienW
Edna O'Brien

Josephine Edna O'Brien is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer. Philip Roth described her as "the most gifted woman now writing in English", while a former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, cited her as "one of the great creative writers of her generation".

Kate O'Brien (novelist)W
Kate O'Brien (novelist)

Kate O'Brien was an Irish novelist and playwright.

Mary Devenport O'NeillW
Mary Devenport O'Neill

Mary Devenport O'Neill was an Irish poet and dramatist and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats, George Russell,and Austin Clarke.

Katherine PurdonW
Katherine Purdon

Katherine Frances Purdon was an Irish novelist and playwright, part of the Irish Revival movement and a member of the United Irishwomen.

Frances SheridanW
Frances Sheridan

Frances Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright.