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Also Known As	Dionysus Lardner Boursiquot
Born	Dublin • Ireland
Died	December 26, 1820 or December 26, 1822 • September 18, 1890 • New York City • New York
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John Brougham

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Padraic Colum

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Micheál MacLiammóir

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Howard Lindsay

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T.S. Eliot

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George Bernard Shaw

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James Joyce

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Henry James

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William Butler Yeats

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Oscar Wilde

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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W. H. Auden

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