{"id":400,"date":"2007-03-16T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=400"},"modified":"2016-10-12T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T16:56:18","slug":"10-famous-irish-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/10-famous-irish-authors","title":{"rendered":"10 Famous Irish Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day tomorrow, here is a list of 10 Irish authors and their most famous works:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samuel Beckett &#8211; <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0802130348\/nickslists-20\">Waiting for Godot<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4083\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/112510.jpg\" alt=\"The Vicar of Wakefield\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/112510.jpg 330w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/112510-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Oliver Goldsmith &#8211; <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192805126\/nickslists-20\">The Vicar of Wakefield<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Seamus Heaney &#8211; <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393320979\/nickslists-20\">Beowulf<\/a> (as translator)<\/li>\n<li>James Joyce &#8211; <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679722769\/nickslists-20\">Ulysses<\/a><\/li>\n<li>George Bernard Shaw &#8211; <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140437894\/nickslists-20\">Pygmalion<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Laurence Sterne &#8211; <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0141439777\/nickslists-20\">The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bram Stoker &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451523377\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dracula<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Swift &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0141439491\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Oscar Wilde &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0375751513\/nickslists-20\">The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/a><\/li>\n<li>William Butler Yeats &#8211; <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0684807319\/nickslists-20\">Collected Poems<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can&#8217;t comment on too many of them, since I haven&#8217;t read most of them, but I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Tristram Shandy<\/span>. It&#8217;s a book you can really savor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day tomorrow, here is a list of 10 Irish authors and their most famous works: Samuel Beckett &#8211; Waiting for Godot Oliver Goldsmith &#8211; The Vicar of Wakefield Seamus Heaney &#8211; Beowulf (as translator) James Joyce &#8211; Ulysses George Bernard Shaw &#8211; Pygmalion Laurence Sterne &#8211; The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Bram Stoker &#8211; Dracula Jonathan Swift &#8211; Gulliver&#8217;s Travels Oscar Wilde &#8211; The Picture of Dorian Gray William Butler Yeats &#8211; Collected Poems I can&#8217;t comment on too many&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[36,269],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-book-recommendations","tag-st-patricks-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/112510.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-6s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4084,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/4084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}