List of Playwrights By Nationality and Year of Birth

Ireland

See also: List of Irish dramatists; List of Northern Irish writers

(1728–1774) Oliver Goldsmith
(1735–1812) Isaac Bickerstaffe
(1784–1862) James Sheridan Knowles {Ireland—England}
(c. 1820 – 1890) Dion Boucicault
(1853–1923) William Boyle
(1859–1923) Edward Martyn
(1877–1963) George Fitzmaurice
(1878–1957) Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany Lord Dunsany}
(1880–1964) Sean O'Casey
(1881–1972) Padraic Colum
(1882–1941) James Joyce
(1883–1971) St. John Ervine
(1889–1973) C. K. Munro
(1890–1963) Brinsley MacNamara
(1899–1978) Micheál MacLíammóir (English language and Irish language)
(1900–1968) Paul Vincent Carroll
(1901–1984) Denis Johnston
(1902–1961) Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford
(1906–1989) Samuel Beckett (English language and French language)
(1910–2001) Joseph O'Conor
(1912–1968) Donagh MacDonagh
(1923–1964) Brendan Behan
(born 1929) Brian Friel

“Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“There is no topic ... more soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.”
—V.S. (Victor Sawdon)

List of Playwrights By Nationality and Year of Birth - Ireland