List of Trinity College Dublin People - Literature

Literature

  • Sebastian Barry, novelist
  • Samuel Beckett, Dramatist, Nobel laureate
  • Nicholas Brady, poet and translator
  • Eavan Boland, Irish poet
  • John Boyne, novelist
  • Erskine Barton Childers, writer and journalist
  • Ronan Coghlan, writer
  • Eoin Colfer, children's writer
  • William Congreve, playwright and poet
  • J. P. Donleavy, Irish-American author
  • Richard Ellman, Literary Critic and Biographer
  • Anne Enright, novelist, winner of Man Booker Prize 2007
  • George Farquhar, dramatist
  • Oliver Goldsmith, writer and surgeon
  • John Haffenden, professor of literature
  • Brendan Kennelly, Irish poet and author
  • William Larminie, poet
  • Michael de Larrabeiti, author
  • Sheridan Le Fanu, author
  • Michael Longley, poet
  • Patrick MacDonogh, poet
  • Sir Rupert Mackeson, racing author
  • Thomas MacNevin, writer and journalist
  • Derek Mahon, poet
  • Bryan Malessa, novelist
  • Barry McCrea, novelist and lecturer
  • Jo Shapcott, poet
  • Thomas Southerne, dramatist
  • Oliver St. John Gogarty, poet and surgeon
  • Bram Stoker, author, notable for Dracula
  • Jonathan Swift, satirist, author of Gullivers Travels
  • John Millington Synge, Dramatist, Poet; author of The Playboy of the Western World
  • Nahum Tate, lyricist and Poet Laureate
  • Trevor White, food critic and author of Kitchen Con
  • Oscar Wilde, poet, dramatist, and a wit read Greats in Trinity from 1871 - 1874. As a student, Wilde was active in the University Philosophical Society.

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