Literature
Belfast has been home to a number of significant, novelists, poets and playwrights. C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, was born in Belfast as were Brian Moore, Bernard MacLaverty, Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson. Poet Louis MacNeice was born in the city. Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley and Ciarán Carson were poet participants in The Belfast Group. Contemporary poets writing in and about Belfast would include Leontia Flynn, Medbh McGuckian and Sinéad Morrissey.
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