List of Northern Irish writers
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- Gary AllenGary AllenGary Allen was an American conservative journalist.-Background:As a student, Allen was majoring in history at Stanford University and studied at California State University, Long Beach. He was a prominent member of the John Birch Society, of which he was a spokesman...
(1964–) - Joseph AllenJoseph AllenJoseph Allen may refer to:* Joseph Allen , member of the eleventh United States Congress* Joseph Allen , Bishop of Bristol and Bishop of Ely* Joseph Allen * Joseph H...
(1964–) - Chris ArthurChris ArthurChristopher Anton Arthur is an English footballer playing as a midfielder for Northampton Town in Football League Two.-Career:...
(1955–) - Carol Azadeh (1964–)
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- Colin BatemanColin BatemanColin Bateman is a novelist, screenwriter and former journalist from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.Born in 1962, Bateman attended Bangor Grammar School leaving at 16 to join the County Down Spectator as a "cub" reporter, then columnist and deputy editor...
(1962–) - Mary Beckett (1926–)
- Ronan BennettRonan BennettRonan Bennett is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter. He was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family headed by William H. and Geraldine Bennett at 420 Merville Garden Village in the Whitehouse area of Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. Since its development in the late-1940s, Merville has...
(1956–) - Matthew Blair (1985–)
- Maureen BoyleMaureen Boyle- Biography :Maureen Boyle was born and raised in Sion Mills, near Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. She studied English at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating B.A in 1984. Her poems have been published in Fortnight Magazine, The Yellow Nib, and elsewhere...
(1961–) - John Boyd (1912–2002)
- Paul BoydPaul BoydPaul Boyd is a British, music video, commercial and feature film director.Born in Scotland, Boyd graduated from St. Martin's School of Art in London with a BA in Fine Art Film...
- Martin Boylan
- Kenneth BranaghKenneth BranaghKenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V , Much Ado About Nothing , Hamlet Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from...
(1960–) - Colette BryceColette BryceColette Bryce is a critically acclaimed poet from Derry, Northern Ireland. Bryce lived in London until 2002 when she moved to Scotland, followed by a move to the North East of England in 2005...
(1970–) - Eve BuntingEve BuntingAnne Evelyn Bunting , better known as Eve Bunting, is an Irish author who has written more than 250 books. Her work covers a broad array of subjects and includes fiction and non-fiction books. Her novels are primarily aimed at children and young adults, but her works also include picture books...
(1928–) - James BurkeJames Burke (science historian)James Burke is a British broadcaster, science historian, author and television producer known amongst other things for his documentary television series Connections and its more philosophical oriented companion production, The Day the Universe Changed , focusing on the history of science and...
(1936–) - Anna BurnsAnna BurnsAnna Burns is an Irish author. She was born in Belfast and moved to London in 1987. Her first novel, No Bones, is an account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles.-Awards:*Winner of the 2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize...
(1962–) - Sam Burnside
- Tony BailieTony BailieTony Bailie is a novelist, and journalist from Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland.Tony Bailie is an Irish writer who, to date, has published two novels and two poetry collections. His first novel, The Lost Chord, published by Lagan Press 2006, tells the story of hard-living and enigmatic...
(1962–)
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- Lucy CaldwellLucy CaldwellLucy Caldwell is a Northern Irish playwright and novelist.Born in Belfast in 1981 in what she later described as into one of the darkest and most turbulent years of the Troubles: the year the hunger strikes began, when within a few months Bobby Sands and nine others died; when things seemed to be...
(1982–) - Brian Campbell (1960–2005)
- Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell (poet)Joseph Campbell was an Irish poet and lyricist. He wrote under the Gaelicised version of his name Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil...
(1879–1944) - Thomas CarnduffThomas CarnduffThomas Carnduff, writer, was born on 30 January 1886 in Belfast and died in that city on 15 April 1956.- External links :**...
(1886–1956) - Ciarán CarsonCiaran CarsonCiaran Gerard Carson is a Belfast, Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist.-Early years:Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family...
(1948–) - Daragh Carville (1969–)
- Joyce CaryJoyce CaryJoyce Cary was an Anglo-Irish novelist and artist.-Youth and education:...
(1888–1957) - Paul Charles
- Mary Costello (1955–)
- James CousinsJames CousinsJames Henry Cousins was an Irish writer, playwright, actor, critic, editor, teacher and poet. He used several pseudonyms including Mac Oisín and the Hindu name Jayaram....
(1873–1956) - Mairtín CrawfordMairtín CrawfordMairtín Crawford was a poet and journalist who was born and educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He co-founded and edited the Big Spoon literary arts magazine in the 1990s, was production and arts editor of magazine, was a creative writing tutor at the for eight years, and was appointed...
(1967–2004) - Sam Cree (1928–1980)
- oseph Crilly (1962- )
- Martin CrillyMartin CrillyMartin Crilly is a writer born in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.In 2002, he published The Cream of Irish Industry, Commerce and Government, a directory of the Top 5000 companies in Ireland.-References:...
(1969–) - Eric CrossEric Cross (writer)Eric Cross was an Irish writer born in Newry, County Down, Ireland.In 1942, he published The Tailor and Ansty, in The Bell, a collection of stories and sayings from an old country tailor called Timothy Buckley and his wife Anastasia that Cross had recorded, with a foreword by Frank O'Connor...
(1905–1980)
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- Cahal Dallat (1953–)
- Gerald DaweGerald DaweGerald Dawe is a Northern Irish writer and poet.-Early life:Gerald Dawe was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and grew up with his mother, sister and grandmother. He attended Orangefield Boys School across the city in East Belfast, a leading progressive liberal state school...
(1952–) - Seamus DeaneSeamus DeaneSeamus Deane is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic.Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, Deane was born into a Catholic nationalist family. He attended St. Columb's College in Derry, Queen's University Belfast and Pembroke College, Cambridge University . At St...
(1940–) - Anne DevlinAnne Devlin (writer)Anne Devlin is a short story writer, playwright and screenwriter born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was a teacher from 1974 - 1978 and started writing fiction in 1976 in Germany...
(1951–) - Martina Devlin
- Jenni Doherty (1971–)
- Richard Doherty
- Moyra Donaldson (1956–)
- Charles Donnelly (1914–1937)
- John DoughertyJohn Dougherty (author)John Dougherty is a Northern Irish author, born in the town of Larne in 1964. He now lives in Gloucestershire.He worked as a primary school teacher in London during the 1990s and early 2000s, and during this period began to write stories for children...
(1964 –) - Anne Doughty
- Garbhan Downey
- Lynn Doyle (1873–1961)
- Malachy Doyle (1954–)
- Michael Duke
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- Padraic FiaccPadraic FiaccPadraic Fiacc is an Irish poet, and member of Aosdána, the exclusive Irish Arts Academy.- Biographical information :...
(1924–) - Leontia FlynnLeontia FlynnLeontia Flynn is an Irish poet born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. Flynn grew up in Ballyloughlin, south County Down, between the towns of Newcastle and Dundrum, very close to the well known Murlough Nature Reserve...
(1974–) - Brian FosterBrian FosterBrian Keith Foster was a professional American "Mid School" Bicycle Motocross racer and Dirt Jumper whose prime competitive years were from 1992–2000....
- Brian FrielBrian FrielBrian Friel is an Irish dramatist, author and director of the Field Day Theatre Company. He is considered to be the greatest living English-language dramatist, hailed by the English-speaking world as an "Irish Chekhov" and "the universally accented voice of Ireland"...
(1929–) - Anne-Marie Fyfe (1953–)
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- Ray Givans
- Robin Glendinning
- Damian Gorman (1961–)
- Robert GreacenRobert GreacenRobert Greacen was an Irish poet and member of Aosdána. Born in Derry, Ireland, on 24 October 1920, he was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College Dublin...
(1920–)
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- Wilson John Haire (1932–)
- David Hammond
- Robert Harbinson (1928–2005)
- David Hammond
- Norma Harrs
- Francis HarveyFrancis Harvey (poet)Francis Harvey is a poet and playwright. He was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland in 1925. Harvey has lived in County Donegal for most of his life...
(1925–) - Rosalind Haslett
- Seamus HeaneySeamus HeaneySeamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
(1939–) - John Hewitt (1907–1987)
- Gareth HigginsGareth HigginsGareth Higgins is a writer from Belfast, Northern Ireland now living in Durham, North Carolina. He is the executive director of the Wild Goose Festival....
(1975–) - Arnold Hill
- Bulmer HobsonBulmer HobsonJohn Bulmer Hobson was a leading member of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood before the Easter Rising in 1916...
(1882–1969) - John HughesJohn Hughes (poet)John Hughes was an English poet also noted for his editing of and commentary on the works of Edmund Spenser. Writing at the very end of 17th Century and at the beginning of the 18th, he also translated French drama and poetry, including Molière. Hughes was a favorite of the nobility and...
(1962–)
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- John KellyJohn Kelly- People :* John Kelly of Killanne , leader of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 in Wexford* John Kelly , Congregational minister* John Larry Kelly, Jr. , originator of the Kelly criterion...
- Brian Keenan (1950–)
- Brian KennedyBrian Kennedy (singer)Brian Edward Patrick Kennedy is an Irish singer-songwriter and author, known for his ballads, and has represented Ireland at Eurovision 2006. He is the younger brother of musician Bap Kennedy.-Personal life:...
(1966–) - Michael Kerr (1958–)
- Benedict KielyBenedict KielyBenedict "Ben" Kiely was an Irish author and broadcaster from Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland.-Early life:Benedict Kiely was born in Dromore, County Tyrone to Thomas John and Sara Alice Kiely. He was the youngest of six children, the others were Rita, Gerald, Eileen, Kathleen and Macartan; four of...
(1919–) - Kevin KielyKevin KielyKevin Kiely is an Irish politician and former Mayor of Limerick from 2009–10. He was made a Peace Commissioner in 1983 by the then Fine Gael Minister for Justice, Michael Noonan. He is a member of Fine Gael. He was first elected to Limerick City Council in 1985. He was re-elected to the council in...
(1953–)
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- Nick LairdNick LairdNicholas 'Nick' Laird is a novelist and poet who was born, and grew up, in Cookstown, County Tyrone. He studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he attained a first in English. He went on to work at the global law firm Allen & Overy in London for six years, before leaving to concentrate...
(1975–) - Maurice LeitchMaurice LeitchMaurice Leitch is a renowned author, born in Northern Ireland. He is author of The Liberty Lad, Poor Lazarus, Silver's City, and many other works. In 1969, he moved to London to become a producer in the BBC's radio drama department...
(1933–) - Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963)
- Antonia LogueAntonia LogueAntonia Logue is an Irish novelist from Park, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. She grew up in Brussels, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University....
(1972–) - Michael LongleyMichael LongleyMichael Longley, CBE is a Northern Irish poet from Belfast.-Life and career:Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus...
(1939–) - Stuart Love playwright (1937-)
- Martin Lynch
- Robert Wilson LyndRobert Wilson LyndRobert Wilson Lynd was an Irish writer, an urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist.-Life and career:He was born in Belfast and educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, studying at Queen's University...
(1879–1949)
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- Bernard MacLavertyBernard MacLavertyBernard MacLaverty is a writer of fiction. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 14 September 1942, and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children...
(1942–) - Louis MacNeiceLouis MacNeiceFrederick Louis MacNeice CBE was an Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis; nicknamed "MacSpaunday" as a group — a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco...
(1907–1963) - Deirdre MaddenDeirdre MaddenDeirdre Madden is an author from Toomebridge, County Antrim in Northern Ireland. She was educated at St Mary's Grammar School, Trinity College, Dublin and at the University of East Anglia . In 1994 she was Writer-in-Residence at University College, Cork and in 1997 was Writer Fellow at Trinity...
(1960–) - Douglas MaddonDouglas MaddonDouglas Maddon is the nom de plume of Northern Irish author and teacher David McDowell. He is best known for the novel The English Department's Whores published in 2001.-Early political career :...
(1970–) - Daniel Magee
- Jason Maher (1975–)
- Derek Mahon (1941–)
- Brian McAvera
- Brian McCafferty (1983–)
- Owen McCaffertyOwen McCaffertyOwen McCafferty is a playwright from Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, McCafferty held several jobs, including tiling and working in an abattoir, before becoming a full-time writer...
(1961–) - Eamonn McCannEamonn McCannEamonn McCann is an Irish journalist, author and political activist.-Life:McCann was born and has lived most of his life in Derry. He was educated at St. Columb's College in the city. He is prominently featured in the documentary film The Boys of St...
(1943–) - Nicola McCartney
- Hugh McFaddenHugh McFaddenHugh McFadden is an Irish poet, literary editor, executor and freelance journalist.-Early life:McFadden was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, where he lived briefly, and then moved to County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, before moving to Dublin...
- Roy McFaddenRoy McFadden-External links:* http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/Mc/McFadden,R/life.htm* http://www.kennys.ie/categories/irishwriters/mcfaddenroy.php* http://www.sarahferris.co.uk/pages/roymcfadden.htm* http://www.jstor.org/pss/29735944...
(1921–1999) - Niall McGrath (1966–)
- Medbh McGuckianMedbh McGuckianMedbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Biography:She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast...
(1950–) - Christina McKennaChristina McKennaChristina McKenna is an author who was born and grew up in Draperstown, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. McKenna attended the Belfast College of Art where she obtained an honours degree in Fine Art and studied postgraduate English at the University of Ulster...
- Gerard McKeownGerard McKeownGerard McKeown is a writer from Ballymena, Northern Ireland. A graduate of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, he is best known for his performance poetry, which draws as much from disciplines such as stand up comedy and bardic story telling as it does poetry.He has performed as a support act for other...
(1980) - Blánaid McKinney
- Adrian McKintyAdrian McKintyAdrian McKinty is an Irish novelist. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968 and grew up in Victoria Council Estate, Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He read law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford...
- David McKittrickDavid McKittrickDavid McKittrick is a Belfast-born journalist who has reported on Northern Ireland since 1971.-Professional career:McKittrick began his career as a reporter for the East Antrim Times. He joined the Irish Times in 1973 as a reporter in Belfast, becoming Northern editor in 1976 and London editor in...
(1949–) - Thomas McLaughlinThomas McLaughlinThomas McLaughlin was an Irish nationalist politician.Born in Armagh, he became politically active and rose to become the chair of Armagh Urban Council and a member of Armagh County Council. He also served as Supreme Knight of the Knights of Saint Columbanus. In 1928, he was the founding...
- Nigel McLoughlinNigel McLoughlinNigel McLoughlin . He is a poet, editor and teacher. He lives in Gloucestershire, England.- Education :He received his early education at St. Michael's College, Enniskillen. He holds a BA in English from the University of London and a Diploma in Irish Language from the University of Ulster...
(b. 1968) - Séamas MacManus (1870–1960)
- Adrian McGrath
- Adrian McGrath!
- Gerald McNamara (1865–1938)
- George McWhirterGeorge McWhirterGeorge McWhirter is a Northern Irish-Canadian writer, translator, editor, teacher and Vancouver’s first Poet Laureate....
(1939–) - Jon Marshall (1954–)
- Eoin McNameeEoin McNameeEoin McNamee is an Irish writer.He has written two novellas, The Last of Deeds and Love in History , which was shortlisted for the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award for Irish Literature; and the novels, Resurrection Man , which detailed the bloodletting of the UVF gang the Shankill Butchers ;...
(1961–) - Martin Meenan
- Ruddick Millar (1907–)
- Sam MillarSam MillarSam Millar is a best-selling crime writer and playwright from Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He has won numerous literary awards and his books have all been critically praised. Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to his best-selling memoir, On The Brinks.Sam Millar is represented worldwide by...
(1955–)www.millarcrime.com - Alice MilliganAlice MilliganAlice Milligan was an Irish nationalist poet and writer, active in the Gaelic League.-Life:She was born and raised a Protestant in Gortmore, near Omagh, County Tyrone. Milligan's father was the writer Seaton Milligan, antiquary and member of the RIA...
(1865–1953) - Gary MitchellGary MitchellGary Mitchell is a Northern Irish playwright. By the 2000s, he had become "one of the most talked about voices in European theatre ... whose political thrillers have arguably made him Northern Ireland's greatest playwright"....
(1965–) - Frances Molloy (1947–1991)
- Mary Montague (1964–)
- Martin MooneyMartin MooneyMartin Mooney is a former Scottish footballer who played for Falkirk, Stirling Albion , Dumbarton and Stenhousemuir. He was most recently assistant manager at Berwick Rangers to Allan McGonigal before both departed the club in November 2008...
(1964–) - Brian MooreBrian Moore (novelist)Brian Moore was a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The...
(1921–1999) - Sinéad MorrisseySinead MorrisseySinéad Morrissey is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Life:Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1990...
(1972–) - Bill Morrison (1940–)
- Conall Morrison
- Danny MorrisonDanny Morrison (republican)Daniel Gerard Morrison , known generally as Danny Morrison is an Irish republican writer and activist...
(1953–) - Paul MuldoonPaul MuldoonPaul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...
(1951–) - C.K. Munro
- Brenda Murphy
- Michael J. Murphy (1913–1996)
- Paul Murphy (1965–)
- Paul MurrayPaul Murray (poet)Paul Murray, Irish poet, born 1947.A native of Newcastle, County Down, Murray became a member of the Dominican Order in 1966.-References:* Irish Poetry of Faith and Doubt:The Cold Heaven, p.187, ed. John F. Deane, Wolfhound Press, 1990....
(1947–)
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- Flann O'BrienFlann O'BrienBrian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature. Best known for novels such as At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman and An Béal Bocht and many satirical columns in The Irish Times Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was...
(1911–1966) - Conor O'CallaghanConor O'CallaghanConor O'Callaghan is an Irish poet, born in Newry in 1968. He has published three collections of poetry: The History of Rain , Seatown , and Fiction...
(1968–) - Malachi O'DohertyMalachi O'DohertyMalachi O'Doherty is a journalist, author and broadcaster in Northern Ireland.He is the producer and presenter of the audio blog Arts Talk ....
(1951–) - Sam Francis O'DohertySam Francis O'DohertySam Francis O'Doherty born 3 July , is an author of Northern Irish/English heritage most recognised for the novella "Belle"...
(D.O.B. unconfirmed) - Séamus Ó NéillSéamus Ó NéillSéamus Ó Néill, , was a versatile Irish writer from Clarkhill, Castlewellan, County Down, Ireland. Following a primary degree from Queen's University, Belfast, he did historical research under Eoin MacNeill at University College, Dublin...
(1910–1986) - Sean O'ReillySean O'ReillySean O’Reilly is the owner and operator of Arcana Studio, Canada's largest comic book company.Through his abilities as a developer of transmedia properties O'Reilly has led Arcana Studio to winning The Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Publisher in their first year, as voted by the retailers and...
(1969–) - Frank OrmsbyFrank OrmsbyFrancis Arthur Ormsby is a Northern Irish poet.He was educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen and Queen's University Belfast. He was editor of The Honest Ulsterman from 1969 to 1989, and has also edited the Poetry Ireland Review. Since 1976 he has been Head of English at the Royal Belfast...
(1947–)
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- David Park (1954–)
- Stewart ParkerStewart ParkerJames Stewart Parker was a Northern Irish poet and playwright.He was born in Sydenham, Belfast, of a Protestant working class family. While still in his teens, he contracted bone cancer and had a leg amputated...
(1941–1988) - Glenn PattersonGlenn PattersonGlenn Patterson, born in Belfast in 1961, is a novelist.He attended Methodist College Belfast. He graduated from the University of East Anglia where he studied Creative Writing under Malcolm Bradbury...
(1961–) - Tom PaulinTom PaulinThomas Neilson Paulin is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he is the GM Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.- Life and work :...
(1945–) - William PeskettWilliam PeskettWilliam Peskett is a poet from Northern Ireland.Peskett was educated in Belfast and at Cambridge University, where he read natural sciences....
(1952–) - Timothy Phillips (1977–)
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- Zane RadcliffeZane RadcliffeZane Radcliffe is an author from Northern Ireland.-Early life:Radcliffe graduated from Queen's University Belfast, where he was the editor of their student newspaper. After graduation, he briefly worked as a journalist for M8. In 1994 he moved to London to study advertising for a year, after which...
- Morna Regan
- Christina ReidChristina ReidChristina Reid is a playwright.-Life:She graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast.She was a writer-in-residence at the Lyric Theatre, and at the Young Vic...
- Forrest ReidForrest ReidForrest Reid was an Irish novelist, literary critic and translator. He was, along with Hugh Walpole and J.M. Barrie, a leading pre-war British novelist of boyhood...
(1875–1947) - Graham ReidGraham Reid (writer)Graham Reid is a playwright from Belfast, Northern Ireland.-Background:Born into a working class family in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Reid left school at age 15, served in the British army, married young, but returned to education and graduated from Queen's University in 1976...
(1945–) - Adrian Rice (1958–)
- Amanda McKittrick RossAmanda McKittrick RossAnna Margaret Ross , known by her pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros, was a Northern Irish writer. She published her first novel Irene Iddesleigh at her own expense in 1897. She wrote poetry and a number of novels...
(1860–1939) - Richard RowleyRichard RowleyRichard Rowley was the pseudonym of Richard Valentine Williams , born at 79 Dublin Road, Belfast, Ireland, who wrote poetry, plays and stories.-Early life:...
(1877–1947) - George William RussellGeorge William RussellGeorge William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym Æ , was an Irish nationalist, writer, editor, critic, poet, and painter. He was also a mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy in Dublin, for many years.-Organisor:Russell was born in Lurgan, County Armagh...
(1867–1935)
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- Jack Scoltock (1942–)
- Zoe Seaton
- Bob ShawBob ShawBob Shaw, born Robert Shaw, was a science fiction author and fan from Northern Ireland. He was noted for his originality and wit. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1979 and 1980...
(1931–1996) - George ShielsGeorge ShielsGeorge Shiels was an Irish dramatist whose plays were a success both in his native Ulster and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. His most famous plays are The Rugged Path, The Passing Day, and The New Gossoon....
(1886–1949) - James Simmons (1933–2001)
- Damian Smyth (1962–)
- Geoffrey SquiresGeoffrey SquiresGeoffrey Squires is an Irish poet who works in what might loosely be termed the modernist tradition.-Early life:While born in Derry, he grew up in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland...
(1942–) - David W Stokes
- Gerald J TateGerald J TateGerald J Tate , is an Northern Irish Horror writer, who is also a time served aircraft engineer.- Writings :His first book, Cappawhite, was released in 2006, but then re-edited in 2009. Director Ron Howard has been in talks with the author since 2007...
(Belfast) - Sam ThompsonSam Thompson (writer)Sam Thompson was a Northern Irish playwright best known for his controversial plays Over the Bridge, which exposes sectarianism, and Cemented with Love, which focuses on political corruption...
(1916–1965) - Edward Toman
- Joseph TomeltyJoseph TomeltyJoseph Tomelty was a Northern Irish character actor and playwright. He worked in film, television, radio and on the stage, starring in Sam Thompson's 1960 play Over the Bridge.-Early life:...
(1911–1995) - Shaun Traynor (1941–)
Jack Scoltock Derry author of many children's novels, plays, and dive books. Was born in Derry in 1942 and has lived there all his life. He had written his first collection of Short stories The First Communion. He is the first author to have an ebook published by an irish Publisher. A disc called, Commaric came out in 2002 his first attempt at digital stories.
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- James WhiteJames White (author)James White was a Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending his early years in Canada. After a few years in the clothing industry, he worked at Short Brothers Ltd. from 1965 until taking early retirement in...
(1928–1999) - Robert McLiam WilsonRobert McLiam WilsonRobert McLiam Wilson is a Northern Irish novelist. He attended St Malachy's College and studied at University of Cambridge; however, he dropped out and, for a short time, was homeless. This period of his life profoundly affected his later life and influenced his works...
(1964–) - Samantha J Wright
- Sarah Wray (1969–)