List of Irish dramatists

List of Irish dramatists

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.

A - D

*John Banim
*Sebastian Barry
*Samuel Beckett
*Brendan Behan
*Dermot Bolger
*Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)
*Ian Adam Bryan
*Colm Byrne
*Marina Carr
*Paul Vincent Carroll
*Austin Clarke
*Padraic Colum
*William Congreve
*Louis D'Alton
* Seamus DeBurca
*Anne Devlin
*Roddy Doyle
*Gary Duggan
*Lord Dunsany

E - J

*St John Ervine
*Seamus Finnegan
*Michael Fitzpatrick
*Brian Friel
*Miriam Gallagher
*Oliver Goldsmith
*Lady Augusta Gregory
*Gerald Griffin
*Michael Harding
*Declan Hughes
*Alex Johnston
*Denis Johnston
*Jennifer Johnston
*Marie Jones
*James Joyce

K - P

*Patrick Kavanagh
*John B. Keane
*Thomas Kilroy
*Jerome Kilty
*Hugh Leonard
*Walter Macken
*Micheál MacLiammoir
* Daniel Magee
*Jason Maher
*Edward Martyn
*John McCann
*Martin McDonagh
*Frank McGuinness
*Conor McPherson
*M. J. Molloy
*George Moore
*Gerald Murphy
*Jimmy Murphy
*John Murphy
*Tom Murphy
*T. C. Murray
*Sean O'Casey
*Joseph O'Connor
*Mary Devenport O'Neill
*Christian O'Reilly
*Mark O'Rowe
*Cathal Ó Searcaigh

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)

ee also

*Irish literature
*List of Irish poets
*List of Irish novelists
*List of Irish short story writers


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