10 Famous Irish Authors
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow, here is a list of 10 Irish authors and their most famous works:
- Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
- Oliver Goldsmith – The Vicar of Wakefield
- Seamus Heaney – Beowulf (as translator)
- James Joyce – Ulysses
- George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion
- Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Bram Stoker – Dracula
- Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
- Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
- William Butler Yeats – Collected Poems
I can’t comment on too many of them, since I haven’t read most of them, but I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed Tristram Shandy. It’s a book you can really savor.
