Who are some popular Irish Authors?

[Karleekinsss]

please and maybe if you know it some of their books? Preferably a good author/book by an Irish author, not a book about ireland.

 

[trickart262]

James Joyce

 

[Geminijune]

Elizabeth Ashbridge
George Bernard Shaw
Edmund Burke
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Oliver Goldsmith
Sir Richard Steele
James Joyce
Bram Stoker
C.S. Lewis
Jonathan Swift
Frank O'Connor
Oscar Wilde
John O'Keefe
William Butler Yeats

 

[kishlover]

Right now Marian Keyes is a contemporary popular Irish authors, "Anybody Out There?"
Cecilia Ahern, author of "PS I Love You" is pretty popular
And of course, the author of "Angela's Ashes" Frank McCourt