Eight Great Dublin Writers

Jonathan Swift 1667 - 1745
Swift is best accepted for his abusive masterpiece 'Gulliver's Travels' which describes the campaign of the hero, Lemuel Gulliver to assorted fantasy acreage including Lilliput which is inhabited by a chase of tiny humans who are actual affected and to Brobdingnag whose citizenry acquisition his belief of England absurd. This banter afterwards became a childrens' story. He aswell wrote abundant added satires including 'A Tale of a Tub' and abundant political treatises including 'The Drapier Letters' which accept fabricated Swift a civic hero because of his affront of Britain. He was Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin from 1713 to 1745.
Oliver Goldsmith 1730 - 1774
The arcane acceptability of Oliver Goldsmith derives from his two comedies, "The Good-natured Man' and 'She Stoops to Conquer' and from his novel, 'The Vicar of Wakefield'. He is apparently best accepted in Ireland for his composition 'The Deserted Village', which expresses a abhorrence that the abolition of villages for the account of the elite would ruin the peasantry. Although this composition has been acclaimed in Ireland as an anti-English work, it is now anticipation that the apple on which it is based is in fact in England. Goldsmith was accepted for his acute backbiting of added writers including Dr. Johnson.
George Bernard Shaw 1856 - 1950
Shaw was built-in in Dublin and formed in an appointment until he confused to London. He apparent socialism and abutting the Fabian Society. He began autograph plays anon afterwards and had aboriginal successes with 'Arms and the Man', 'Candida', 'The Devil's Disciple', 'Man and Superman', 'Major Barbara', 'The Doctor's Dilemma' and several others. His a lot of acclaimed play, 'Pygmalion', was afterwards angry into the accepted agreeable 'My Fair Lady'. As able-bodied as accepting a playwright, Shaw wrote abundantly as a analyzer in the areas of Art, Abstract and Music and aswell wrote abundant political treatises. He produced some balladry and novels which are beneath able-bodied known. He was a wit and raconteur and abounding of his aphorisms are consistently quoted. He won the Nobel Prize for Abstract in 1925.
Sean O'Casey 1880 - 1964
Although he was the son of average chic Protestants he became a active nationalist and adherent of James Larkin and the Irish Citizen Army. He able himself to apprehend and address by the age thirteen. He larboard academy at fourteen and formed at altered jobs, including as a railwayman for nine years. He started autograph about 1917 and produced a cord of plays. His aboriginal play at The Abbey Theatre was 'The Shadow of a Gunman' in 1923 and this was followed by his added abundant works, 'Juno and the Paycock' and 'The Plough and the Stars'. His afterwards play 'The Silver Tassie' was alone by The Abbey but he went on to address abundant added plays which were performed all over the apple including in London and New York. He aswell wrote a six-volume autobiography.
William Butler Yeats 1865 - 1939
He founded the Irish Theatre With Lady Gregory and this afterwards became the Abbey Theatre which is still Ireland's arch theatre. He was actual abundant complex in the arising Irish Nationalism and his plays were generally based on Irish legends. They cover The Countess Cathleen, The Land of Heart's Desire, Cathleen N Houlihan and Deirdre. He accustomed the Nobel Prize for abstract in 1923 mainly for his plays but a lot of of his poetry, for which he is added famous, came later. His balladry collections cover 'The Wild Swans at Coole', 'The Tower', 'The Winding Stair and Added Poems' and 'Last Balladry and Plays'. He is advised to be one of the a lot of important poets autograph in English in the twentieth century.
Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900
Wilde was able in Dublin and Oxford and again confused to London area he confused in fashionable cultural and amusing circles and became complex in the artful movement. He became one of London's a lot of accepted playwrights and his 'The Importance of Accepting Earnest' is advised to be one of the best avant-garde absurdity in English. His added plays aswell cover 'Lady Windermere's Fan'', 'Salom'', 'A Woman of No Importance' and 'An Ideal Husband'. He wrote one atypical 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray'. He was confined for two years afterwards he was bedevilled of gross bawdiness with added men and produced his acclaimed composition 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' about his time there. Afterwards his absolution he emigrated to Paris area he died age-old 46.
James Joyce 1882 - 1941
Born in Dublin to affluent Catholic who afterwards became destitute, he was able at the Clongowes, Belvedere College and Royal University afterwards which he went to Paris. In 1904 he started autograph a fabulous adventures alleged 'Stephen Hero' which was afterwards rewritten as 'Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man'. In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle who afterwards became his wife. Joyce's capital works cover Ulysses which is an ballsy plan which is set in Dublin in one day, 16th June 1904 and this porvides the date for the anniversary Bloomsday celebrations in Dublin. He had adversity accepting the book appear but it was eventually appear by Sylvia Beach in Paris. It was banned in Ireland for abounding years. He again formed on his book 'Finnegan's Wake' in which he experimented with accent to the point of authoritative it incomprehensible to a lot of people. His accumulating of abbreviate belief 'Dubliners' contains 'The Dead' which was fabricated into a affection blur by John Huston. Joyce's plan has been the accountable of analysis by abounding advisers and he has been an important access on abundant writers.
Samuel Beckett 1906 - 1989
He advised English, French and Italian at Dublin University (Trinity College) area he was aswell an able candid player. While he was at Trinity College he became afflicted by the autograph of James Joyce and he in fact helped Joyce in accomplishing analysis for 'Finnegans Wake'. He appear arcane analytical works from 1929 advanced and went to biking about Europe and started to address fiction including novels and poems. He acclimatized in France at the alpha of Apple war 2 and became complex in the Resistance Movement. Beckett's atypical 'Murphy' had just been appear and from again on he wrote mainly in French, generally advice the works into English. His added capital novels were 'Molloy', 'Malone Dies' and 'The Unnameable' but nowadays he is bigger accepted for his plays 'Waiting for Godot', 'Endgame' and 'Happy Days'. He won the Nobel Prize for Abstract in 1969. His ground-breaking works accept had a above access on afterwards writers. The Samuel Beckett Bridge which was opened in Dublin in 2009 is called in his honour.