Authors
- Willie Carson - Photo-journalist and author
- Joyce Cary - Author, two of his novels were made into films: The Horse's Mouth (1958) starring Sir Alec Guinness and Mister Johnson (1990)
- Seamus Deane - Writer
- Richard Doherty - Catholic Unionist/Royal Ulster Constabulary reservist, writer, military historian
- Seamus Heaney - Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995
- Nell McCafferty - Journalist, playwright, civil rights campaigner and feminist
- Eamonn McCann - Journalist, civil rights campaigner and socialist
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“The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,—simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
“No man’s thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)