Writers From Northern Ireland
- Ciarán Carson
- Mairtín Crawford
- Brian Friel
- Seamus Heaney
- John Hewitt
- C. S. Lewis
- Bernard MacLaverty
- Louis MacNeice
- Ian McDonald
- Medbh McGuckian
- Gerard McKeown
- Paul Muldoon
- Flann O'Brien
- Frank Ormsby
- Tom Paulin
- Richard Rowley
- Bob Shaw
- David Park
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