Francis Edward Ledwidge was a 20th-century Irish poet. From Slane, County Meath, and sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was later also known as a First World War war poet. He befriended the established writer Lord Dunsany, who helped with publication of his works. He was killed in action at Ypres in 1917.
Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. Clarke's main contribution to Irish poetry was the rigour with which he used technical means borrowed from classical Irish language poetry when writing in English.
The Northside in an informal but commonly used term to describe the part of the city of Dublin that lies to the north of the River Liffey, and extending into part of North County Dublin. The part outside the city is within the county of Fingal, a local government area established in 1994. While it is sometimes regarded as less wealthy than the city's Southside, the Northside was originally the home of the city's upper classes and the more privileged of the two. Today, some of the wealthiest areas in Ireland, such as Malahide, Howth, Clontarf, and Castleknock, lie north of the river.
Professor Frank McGuinness is an Irish writer. As well as his own plays, which include The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and Dolly West's Kitchen, he is recognised for a "strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the plays of Racine, Sophocles, Ibsen, Garcia Lorca, and Strindberg to critical acclaim". He has also published six collections of poetry, and two novels. McGuinness was Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin (UCD) from 2007 to 2018.
Pat Boran is an Irish poet.
Malahide is an affluent coastal settlement in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland, situated 14 kilometres (9 mi) north of Dublin city. It has a village centre surrounded by suburban housing estates, with a population of 18,608 as per the 2022 census.
Patrick McCabe is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for The Butcher Boy (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (1998), both of which have been made into films.
Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish poet.
John MacKenna is an Irish playwright and novelist.
Patrick Galvin was an Irish poet, singer, playwright, and prose and screenwriter born in Cork's inner city.
Jimmy Murphy is an Irish playwright living in Dublin. He is a former writer in residence at NUI Maynooth (2000–01), a member of the Abbey Theatre’s Honorary Advisory Council, a recipient of three Bursaries in literature from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíona and was elected a member of Aosdána in 2004.
John Jordan was an Irish poet and short-story writer.
Robert Anthony Welch was an Irish author and scholar.
Nicola Lindsay is an English writer/actor, living for the past forty years in the Republic of Ireland. She writes novels, poetry, screenplays, children's books and material for radio and the theatre.
Gerard (Gerry) Hanberry is an Irish poet. He also writes non-fiction and is an accomplished musician, singer, guitarist and songwriter. He lives in Galway, Ireland.
Aidan Mathews, sometimes Aidan Carl Mathews, is an Irish poet and dramatist born in Dublin.
Celia de Fréine is a poet, playwright, screenwriter and librettist who writes in Irish and English.
Pat Ahern is an Irish Roman Catholic priest, traditional musician, composer, and the founder, artistic director and producer (1974–1997) of Siamsa Tíre, the Irish National Folk Theatre which performed throughout Ireland and on three continents.
Aodhán Madden (1947-2015) was an Irish playwright, screen writer, poet and short story writer.
The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby is a 2022 Irish documentary film directed by Seamus Murphy, concerning the life and inspirations of Irish poet and TV presenter Pat Ingoldsby.
