20th-century irish novelists

Bram Stoker

Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula

Flann O’Brien

Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature

Samuel Beckett

Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator

Elizabeth Bowen

Irish – British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the “big house” of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.