Stories by an Irish-born writer that happen not in the Ireland of myth but in a squalid third-world country.

Richard Paul Blakeney (1820-1884) was an Irish-born religious writer and cleric.

Isabella Valancy Crawford (25 December 1850 - 12 February 1887) was an Irish-born Canadian writer and poet.

This Irish-born, English-domiciled writer, who is also an excellent novelist, gave us his "Collected Stories" a few years back.

Paul Duane is an Irish-born writer and director of television and film.

January 11 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)

Its intent is to honour an Irish-born writer who has made an outstanding contribution to Irish literature.

Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)

C.S. Lewis, Irish-born British writer (born 1898)

April 13 - Samuel Beckett, Irish-born writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (died 1989)