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Dublin : Top 10 Contemporary Irish Writers

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1. Seamus Heaney

Ireland’s most prominent poet, Heaney (b.1939) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. North (1975) explores the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
2. William Trevor

Trevor (b.1928) is a master of the short story genre.
3. John Banville

The Literary Editor of the Irish Times , Banville (b.1945) is also a novelist – The Sea (2005) won the prestigious Booker Prize.
4. John McGahern

One of McGahern’s (b.1934) best novels is Amongst Women (1990).
5. Brian Friel

Playwright Friel’s (b.1929) successes include Dancing at Lughnasa (1990).
6. Roddy Doyle

Renowned for his Barry-town Trilogy about Dublin life, Doyle (b.1958) won the Booker Prize in 1994 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha! (1993).
7. Edna O’Brien

The Country Girls (1960) is O’Brien’s (b.1930) most well-known novel to date.
8. Colm Toibin

Toibin (b.1955) was short-listed for the 2000 Booker Prize with his novel Blackwater Lightship (1999).
9. Frank McCourt

McCourt’s (b.1930) evocative account of a poverty-stricken upbringing in Limerick in Angela’s Ashes (1996) won him the Pulitzer Prize
10. Tom Murphy

A controversial playwright, Murphy’s (b.1935) work The Wake (1998) had a long run at the Gate Theatre.