Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

male, deceased (1900)
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of...
Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

male, deceased (1745)
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works...
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

male, deceased (1950)
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than...
William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

male, deceased (1939)
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He was a driving force behind the...
Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

male, deceased (1797)
Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many...
Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

female, deceased (1973)
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Bowen was born in Dublin and later brought to Bowen’s Court in Co...
Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth

female, deceased (1849)
Maria Edgeworth (January 1, 1767-May 22, 1849) was an Anglo-Irish novelist. Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, the second...
Douglas Hyde

Douglas Hyde

male, deceased (1949)
Douglas Hyde was an Anglo-Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. He founded the Gaelic...
Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

male, deceased (1992)
Francis Bacon was an Irish figurative painter. He was a collateral descendant of the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon. His artwork is well...
Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

male, deceased (1912) (southside, United States)
Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel "Dracula". In his honor, the Horror...