Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

male, 70 years old
Seamus Justin Heaney 's attempts to develop poetic language in which meaning and sound are intimately related result in concentrated, sensually...
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

male, deceased (1989)
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally...
Anthony Cronin

Anthony Cronin

male, 84 years old
Anthony Cronin is an Irish poet. He received the Marten Toonder Award (1983) for his contribution to Irish literature. He is a founding member of...
Louis Le Brocquy

Louis Le Brocquy

male, 93 years old
Louis le Brocquy (born November 10, 1916) is an Irish painter. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Louis le Brocquy is a towering figure in the history of...
Brian Friel

Brian Friel

male, 80 years old
Brian Friel (born 9 January 1929) is a playwright and director from Northern Ireland. Born in Omagh, County Tyrone, he received his college...
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

female, 57 years old
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish poet. Born in Lancashire in 1952, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5, and was brought up in t...

Cathal Ó Searcaigh

male, 53 years old
Cathal Ó Searcaigh is an Irish poet who writes in the Irish language (specifically the Ulster dialect). He was born in Gortahork, a town in the G...
Dermot Healy

Dermot Healy

male, 62 years old
Dermot Healy is an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet. He has won the Hennessy Award (1974 and 1976), the Tom Gallon Award (1983), and the Encore...
Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan

male, 65 years old
Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish poet, born in Dublin on October 16, 1944, famous for his self-deprecating wit, and wry analysis of the...
Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

male, 58 years old
Paul Muldoon is a poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Muldoon's poetry is known for difficulty, allusion, casual use of extremely obscure or...