1.belonging to, relating to, or involving England and Ireland:Anglo-Irish literature. 2.of or pertaining to the Anglo-Irish. n. 3.(used with a pl. v.) persons of English descent, or of mixed English and Irish descent, living in Ireland. ...
Patrick Kavanagh was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems “On Raglan Road” and “The Great Hunger”. He is known for his accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace. He also played as a goalkeeper for...
Name:Áine McCarthy.Yes, Orna Ross is a pseudonym, though one that's taken over a bit. Back when I signed my first novel, my publishers said Áine was “too Irish” and advised me to change it to something phonetic in English. That evening, as I was calling my children to dinner...
George Moore was an Irish novelist and man of letters. Considered an innovator in fiction in his day, he no longer seems as important as he once did. Moore came from a distinguished Catholic family of Irish landholders. When he was 21, he left Ireland fo
some historians and sources refer to this cycle as the Ossianic cycle rather than the Fenian or Finn one. The reason for that goes back to the name of Finn MacCool’s son, Oisin. He was a poet, and most of the poems of this era were his own, so the cycle shared similarities in ...
Occupation: Playwright, novelist, and poet Born: October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland Died: November 30, 1900 in Paris, France Notable Works:The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome,Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance,An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest ...
The Sexagenarian; Men Come of Age at Sixty, Women at Fifteen. - James Stephen (Irish Novelist and Poet)Byline: Adrian E. CristobalCONSIDERING that GMA is sixty years old today, at the peak of health and energized by the election campaign, what can one say besides wishing her well?Well...
Samuel Barclay Beckett, the Irish writer, playwright, theatre director, and poet, was known for his bleak writing. His works were tragi-comedies that expressed a darker outlook on existence and life experiences. Even though Beckett was Irish, he was a resident of Paris for most of his ...
Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". He is known for his accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace...
William Butler Yeats was both poet and playwright, a towering figure in 20th-century literature in English, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, a master of traditional verse forms and at the same time an idol of the modernist poets who followed him. ...