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Born 1915 • Galway • Ireland
Died April 22, 1967 (aged 52) • Galway • Ireland
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
James Joyce
James Joyce
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
Behan
Brendan Behan
Irish author
Molly Keane
Irish author
James Plunkett
Irish writer
Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke
Henry Brooke
Irish author
Charles Robert Maturin
Irish writer
Patrick Kavanagh
Irish poet
Saint John Ervine
British dramatist
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron of Dunsany.
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron of Dunsany
Irish dramatist
Colum, Padraic
Padraic Colum
Irish poet
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Polish writer
Josephine Tey, 1934
Josephine Tey
Scottish author
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Anglo-Irish playwright
Sean O’Casey
Irish dramatist
Friel, Brian
Brian Friel
Irish playwright