List of Nobel Laureates By Country - Ireland

Ireland

  1. John Hume*, Peace, 1998
  2. Séamus Heaney*, Literature, 1995
  3. Seán MacBride, Peace, 1974
  4. Samuel Beckett, Literature, 1969
  5. Ernest Walton, Physics, 1951
  6. George Bernard Shaw*, Literature, 1925
  7. William Butler Yeats, Literature, 1923

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