According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

In many Gaelic tales the aos sí are later, literary versions of the Tuatha Dé Danann (" People of the Goddess Danu ") – the deities and deified ancestors of Irish mythology.

A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms.

* Edmond Malone, Irish literary scholar

Donegal has a long literary tradition in both Irish and English.

The movement spread to Ireland, representing an important time for the nation's cultural development, a visual counterpart to the literary revival of the same time and was a publication of Irish nationalism.

In 2006, The Observer asked 150 literary critics to vote for the best British, Irish or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005 ; The Remains of the Day placed joint-eighth.

Allmusic critic John Dougan has written that " As the band's creative force, Lynott was a more insightful and intelligent writer than many of his ilk, preferring slice-of-life working-class dramas of love and hate influenced by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, and virtually all of the Irish literary tradition.

The song was later reprinted in a collection entitled The Shamrock: A Collection of Irish Songs ( 1831 ) and was published in the The Edinburgh literary journal that year with the title " Molly Malone ".

Pogo combined both sophisticated wit and slapstick physical comedy in a heady mix of allegory, Irish poetry, literary whimsy, puns and wordplay, lushly detailed artwork and broad burlesque humor.

He is particularly well known for his hyperealistic renderings of well known Irish literary, historical or establishment figures.

Le Brocquy is widely acclaimed for his evocative " Portrait Heads " of literary figures and fellow artists, which include William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and his friends Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and Seamus Heaney, in recent years le Brocquy's early " Tinker " subjects and Grey period " Family " paintings, have attracted attention on the international marketplace placing le Brocquy within a very select group of British and Irish artists whose works have commanded prices in excess of £ 1 million during their lifetimes that include Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Frank Auerbach, and Francis Bacon.

Additionally, " Jude the Obscure " was a long time pseudonymous contributor to the Northern Irish literary magazine The Honest Ulsterman.

It is possible that more Middle Irish literature was written in medieval Scotland than is often thought, but has not survived because the Gaelic literary establishment of eastern Scotland died out before the 14th century.

Like the Objectivists, these poets were relatively neglected by their native literary cultures and had to wait for a revival of interest in British and Irish modernism in the 1960s before their contributions to the development of this alternative tradition were properly assessed.

During the sixth and seventh centuries, Irish monasticism spread through Christian Western Europe ; Irish monks who founded these monasteries often brought Hiberno-Latin literary styles with them.

Northern Ireland has a literary tradition in English, Ulster Scots and Irish.

The impact of Irish nationalism that led to the partition of the island of Ireland in the 20th century means that literature of the Republic of Ireland is not considered to be British-although the identity of literature from Northern Ireland, as part of the literature of the United Kingdom, may fall within the overlapping identities of Irish and British literature where " the naming of the territory has always been, in literary, geographical or historical contexts, a politically charged activity ".

A 12th century Irish manuscript is found referenced in Fians, Fairies and Picts which equates the Fianna to fairies, but this is one of the few literary sources MacRitchie used as evidence, instead he turned to philology and comparative mythology.

Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, quoted the same verse in his part fiction, part literary criticism, " The Portrait of Mr. W. H.

While academic attention has remained, perhaps disproportionately, focused on poetry from Northern Ireland, several of the younger generation of Irish poets ( William Wall, Justin Quinn, Caitriona O ' Reilly ) have proved perceptive and independent critics of the contemporary scene, as have several older poets who are also literary critics, such as Hugh McFadden, Dennis O ' Driscoll and Michael Smith.

The literary language ( known in English as Classical Irish ), was a sophisticated medium with elaborate verse forms, and was taught in bardic schools ( i. e. academies of higher learning ) both in Ireland and Scotland.

* George Bernard Shaw, usually referred to as " Bernard Shaw ", Irish playwright, critic, and essayist

He was a frequent, critic in his column in The Irish Times, of the loss of competitiveness that occurred and the inflation caused by the tax cuts and excessive public spending increases of the Celtic Tiger era.

Stephen was married to former Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker and noted current critic of Sinn Féin, Dolours Price from 1983 to 2003.

The behaviour of both groups immediately became controversial ( one major critic was King George V ) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and prisoners but towards Irish people in general.

Ross McWhirter was a constant critic of British government policy in Northern Ireland, and called for a " tougher " response by the British Army against Irish republicans.

Journalist Bruce Arnold, chief critic of the Irish Independent, argued that " Writing, for example, is not really served at all by the archaic institution for conferring honours on artists, known as Aosdána, which really does little to help the other arts either.

Edward Dowden ( 3 May 1843 – 4 April 1913 ), was an Irish critic and poet.

* Irish literary critic Denis Donoghue was brought up in Warrenpoint.

* Northern Irish writer and literary critic, Forrest Reid, died in Warrenpoint in 1947.

During the 1830s he emerged as an advocate for Irish rights and democratic political reform, and a notable critic of the British Whig government's policies on Ireland.

In a discussion with the Irish critic and writer Terence de Vere White she said: " Writing, for me, is a search for God.

*' Perfection of the Life, Perfection of the Art ' Irish literary critic Val Nolan writing on the St. John Gogarty Literary Festival for Poetry Ireland News

* Dorothy Walker ( critic ) ( 1929-2002 ), Irish art collector and critic

Music critic and lyricist Michael Leahy once said: " Over the years, Mary Black has come to define what many people see as the essence of Irish woman singers: profound, slightly ethereal and beyond the reaches of trends.

St. John Greer Ervine ( 1883-24 January 1971 ) was an Irish author, writer, critic and dramatist.

James Henry Cousins ( July 22, 1873 – February 20, 1956 ) was an Irish writer, playwright, actor, critic, editor, teacher and poet.

* April 10-George William Russell, Irish critic, poet and painter ( d. 1935 )

George Darley ( 1795 – 1846 ) was an Irish poet, novelist, and critic.

Vivian Mercier ( 1919 – 1989 ) was an Irish literary critic.

Irish literary critic, Vivian Mercier

* Vivian Mercier ( 1919 – 1989 ), Irish critic