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Top 10 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.

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