Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge | Irish Writers

For such a small island, Ireland has produced some of the finest writers in the world. Playwrights, poets, short story writers and four Nobel Prize winners, to name but a few, it is an extraordinary heritage. The earliest writing in Ireland dates back to the 7th Century. Over the years, many of the writers in Ireland have drawn inspiration from a sense of place, language, the use of historical images, mythology and the landscape of Ireland herself as inspiration. 

Many of the writers of this small island wrote about what it means to connect to a sense of place, to connect to home, to connect to Ireland, to its native language, and this, too, has often been an expression of a yearning and sense of exile within. This series is designed to deepen your connection to Ireland, to the country's heart and soul, and its people's rich literary heritage. 

When we know who we are, who our people are, and what our heritage is, we come into the ground of our own being. As Yeats pointed out, we need to know the writers and the poets and the playwrights of that landscape and country, to really come to know Ireland, in our own body and soul.

“If you want to know Ireland body and soul you must read its poems and stories.”

W. B. Yeats