List of Irish dramatists
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This is a list of playwrights either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. Playwrights whose work is in Irish are included.
A brief outline of the history of Irish theatre is also available.
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[edit] A – D
- John Banim
- Sebastian Barry
- Samuel Beckett
- Brendan Behan
- Dermot Bolger
- Dion Boucicault (1820–1890)
- Colm Byrne
- Marina Carr
- Austin Clarke
- Padraic Colum
- William Congreve
- Anne Devlin (writer)
- Deirdre Dowling
- Roddy Doyle
- Gary Duggan
- Lord Dunsany
[edit] E – J
- St John Ervine
- George Farquhar
- Bernard Farrell
- Michael Fitzpatrick
- Brian Friel
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Ewen Glass
- Lady Augusta Gregory
- Gerald Griffin
- Michael Harding
- Declan Hughes
Shane Daly Hughes.
[edit] K – P
- Patrick Kavanagh
- John B. Keane
- Thomas Kilroy
- Hugh Leonard
- Walter Macken
- Micheál MacLiammoir
- Edward Martyn
- John McCann[disambiguation needed
] - Martin McDonagh
- Frank McGuinness
- Corbmac McKay
- Conor McPherson
- M. J. Molloy
- George Moore
- Jimmy Murphy
- John Murphy
- Tom Murphy
- T. C. Murray
- Sean O'Casey
- Joseph O'Connor
- Mary Devenport O'Neill
- Mark O'Rowe
- Cathal Ó Searcaigh
- Sean O'Rourke
[edit] Q – Z
- Lennox Robinson
- Billy Roche
- G. Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
- Peter Sheridan
- George Shiels (1881–1949)
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- John Millington Synge
- Colin Teevan
- Colm Tóibín
- Joseph Tomelty
- Mervyn Wall
- Enda Walsh
- Oscar Wilde (1845–1900)
- W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)
