Irish literary renaissance

The Irish literary renaissance is the general term for a series of revivals of interest in poetry, drama, and fiction in English which was produced by writers from Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In a more detailed sense, it can be seen as starting with the Celtic revival, a period of renewed interest in traditional Irish myths and folklore starting in the 1880's, moving through a middle phase centered around William Butler Yeats and the Abbey Theatre, and finally through a later, explicitly modernist phase, of which James Joyce was the signal writer.

Writers associated with the Irish literary renaissance

• Sir Samuel Ferguson 1810—1886
• Douglas Hyde 1860—1949
• William Butler Yeats 1865—1939
• Ethna Carbery 1866—1902
• Alice Milligan 1866—1953
• Dora Shorter (née Sigerson) 1866—1918
• George Russell (Æ) 1867—1935
• Ella Young 1867—1956
• John Millington Synge 1871—1909
• Nora Chesson (née Hopper) 1871—1906
• Sean O'Casey 1880—1964
• Padraic Colum 1881—1972
• James Stephens 1882—1950