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  1. 1

    A.J. Healy

    1969
    Tommy Storm
    Dublin
    Republic of Ireland
  2. 2
    1931
    Appointment on Prila, Fire Pattern, Medusa's Children, A Wreath of Stars, Warren Peace, Shadow of heaven, The Two-Timers, Other Days, Other Eyes, The Wooden Spaceships, Ground Zero Man, Gambler’s Choice, Galactic Tours: Thomas Cook out of This World Vacations, Orbitsville, A Better Mantrap, Light of Other Days, Ship of Strangers, Unfaithful Recording, Retroactive, Serious Scientific Talks, The Best of the Bushel, The Eastercon Speeches, The Ragged Astronauts, Dark Night in Toyland, Night Walk, The Palace of Eternity, One Million Tomorrows, Orbitsville Departure, Orbitsville Judgement, Dagger of the Mind, The Ceres Solution, The Fugitive Worlds, Killer Planet, Terminal Velocity, Pitching, Vertigo More
    Belfast
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  3. 3

    Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander

    County Waterford
    Republic of Ireland
    Female
  4. 4
    1816
    Something to do, Short life of Thomas Davis, 1840-1846
    Ireland
    Republic of Ireland, Australia
    Male
  5. 5
    1828
    Knocknagow
    Mullinahone
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  6. 6

    Charlotte Brooke

    1740
    Reliques of Irish poetry
    Ireland
    Republic of Ireland
    Female
  7. 7
    1894
    My fight for Irish freedom
    County Tipperary
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  8. 8

    Darrell Figgis

    1882
    Irish constitution, mount of transfiguration, short plot, chronicle of jails, Broken arcs, economic case for Irish independence, Jacob Elthorne, vision of life, AE (George W. Russell) a Study of a Man and a Nation, crucibles of time, Æ, George W. Russell; a study of a man and a nation, AE, George W. Russell, Bye-ways of study, Queen Tara, Recollections of the Irish War, Shakespeare, a study, Æ, return of the hero, paintings of William Blake, Studies and appreciations, Children of earth, Shakespeare More
    Rathmines
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  9. 9

    Derek Landy

    1973
    Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer, Skulduggery Pleasant, Skulduggery Pleasant 2: Playing With Fire, Skulduggery Pleasant CD, Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil More
    Lusk, County Dublin
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  10. 10

    Edward Dowden

    1843
    Studies in literature, 1789-1877, Puritan and Anglican, woman's reliquary, Robert Southey, life of Robert Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Southey, Transcripts and studies, A History of French Literature, Shakespeare scenes and characters, Shakspere; a critical study of his mind and art, Milton in the eighteenth century, Letters about Shelley, Essays modern and Elizabethan, Shakspere, Robert Browning, Poems, Michel De Montaigne, life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, New studies in literature, Letters of Edward Dowden and his correspondents, Introduction to Shakespeare, Milton, The French Revolution And English Literature, Green Road to Land's End More
    Cork
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  11. 11

    Eilís Dillon

    1920
    herd of deer, family of foxes, Aunt Bedelia's cats, Living in Imperial Rome, King Big-Ears, wild little house, shadow of Vesuvius, seals, Two stories, San Sebastian, Five Hundred, head of the family, Sent to his account, bitter glass, cruise of the Santa Maria, house on the shore, Inside Ireland, Coriander, Bold John Henebry, Under the orange grove, Across the bitter sea, Wild geese, lion cub, Wise Man on the Mountain, fort of gold, singing cave, Death in the quadrangle, king's room, Blood relations, Children of Bach, pony and trap, sea wall, lost island, The road to Dunmore, cats' opera, seekers, Rome under the emperors, Death at Crane's Court More
    Galway
    Republic of Ireland
    Female
  12. 12

    Frances Power Cobbe

    1822
    Life Of Frances Power Cobbe V1, scientific spirit of the age, The Friend of Man, higher expediency, The Duties Of Women, Darwinism In Morals And Other Essays, hopes of the human race, Broken lights, Studies New And Old of Ethical And Social Subjects, The Cities Of The Past, Essays On The Pursuits Of Women And A Paper On Female Education, Religious Duty, essay on intuitive morals, Alone to the alone, modern rack, moral aspects of vivisection, [Robertson's life and letters], Italics, red flag in John Bull's eyes, peak in Darien, Public money, VI. - The life after death More
    Donabate
    Republic of Ireland
    Female
  13. 13
    1950
    Pictures in my head, Myths & Tales of Ancient Ireland
    Dublin
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  14. 14
    1852
    The brook Kerith, Moore versus Harris, Flowers of passion, Sister Theresa, Elizabeth Cooper, communication to my friends, Avowals, Esther Waters, He loi se and Abe lard, The untilled field & The lake, bending of the bough, Peronnik the fool, coming of Gabrielle, Letters to Lady Cunard, 1895-1933, Confessions of a young man, Impressions and opinions, Héloïse and Abélard, The lake, Modern painting, Salve, modern lover, Hail and farewell, The collected works, Celibates, Daphnis and Chloe, Memoirs of my dead life, The collected short stories of George Moore, The making of an immortal, Pure poetry, talking pine, anthology of pure poetry, Spring days, lake, Evelyn Innes, Fragments from Héloǐse & Abélard, Vain fortune, Aphrodite in Aulis, Ulick and Soracha, Diarmuid and Grania, drama in muslin, Parnell and his island, Letters of George Moore, Letters from George Moore to Ed. Dujardin, 1886-1922, George Moore in quest of locale, Ave, A mummer's wife, Lewis Seymour and some women, Wildgans, letter to the editor of the Times, In minor keys, A mere accident, Mike Fletcher, A story-teller's holiday, works of George Moore, How Héloïse passed the winter of 1117 with her uncle, Canon Fulbert of Notre Dame, and his good servant, Madelon, strike at Arlingford, passing of the Essenes, Conversations in Ebury street, apostle, Selected plays of George Moore and Edward Martyn, Sister Teresa, flood, In single strictness, Evelyn Inness, Home-sickness, Muslin, Shakspere and Balzac, The apostle, Celibate lives, A communication to my friends, A flood, The George Moore Calendar, George Moore in transition, George Moore on Parnassus, George Moore's correspondence with the mysterious countess, The passing of the Essenes More
    County Mayo
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  15. 15

    Gerald Stembridge

    1958
    The gay detective
    Limerick
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  16. 16

    Henry Brooke

    1703
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  17. 17

    James Cavanah Murphy

    1760
    Arquitectura Gótica - Desenhos do Mosteiro da Batalha, Plans, Elevations, Sections and Views of the Church of Batalha, in the Province of Extramadura in Portugal with the History and Description by Frei Luis de Sousa;, Travels in Portugal during 1789-1790, Arabian Antiquities of Spain, 1813-1816, A General View of the State of Portugal More
    Blackrock
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  18. 18

    James Cousins

    1873
    Three university extension lectures, A Tibetan banner
    Belfast
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  19. 19

    James Vincent Murphy

    1880
    Innishannon
    Republic of Ireland
  20. 20

    Jane Wilde

    1821
    Wexford
    Republic of Ireland
    Female
  21. 21
    1911
    The apprentice
    Portaferry
    Republic of Ireland
    Male
  22. 22
    Republic of Ireland
  23. 23
    1850
    Two years in the French West Indies, Lafcadio Hearn, Os dez mil Rubis, Lafcadio Hearn's Lectures on Tennyson, On poetry, Appreciations of Poetry, Kaidan, kidan, Gombo Zhebes, Lafcadio Hearn: Japan's Great Interpreter, Letters from the Raven, Chita, Karma, The Reconciliation, Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings, Youma;, Kimiko, dream of a summer day, Period of the gruesome, Essays in European and oriental literature, "Gombo zhèbes.", Fantastics and Other Fancies, Buddha, On reading in relation to literature, Japan, Lectures on Shakespeare, Life and literature, Some Chinese ghosts, In ghostly Japan., Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan, Kokoro: hints and echoes of Japanese inner life., Inventing New Orleans, Buddhism - Gleanings in Buddha-Fields; Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East, Buying Christmas toys and other essays, Exotics and retrospectives, Articles on literature and other writings from the Cincinnati enquirer, 1873, The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories, Kimiko, and other Japanese sketches, goblin spider, Phantasien, On poets, Exotics & Retrospectives, Sea literature, El romance de la via lactea, Japanbuch, Khinezishe legendn, Chin chin kobakama, Creole sketches, Meiji Nihon no omokage, Trois fois bel conte, Gleanings in Buddha-fields, Izumo: Blicke in das unbekannte Japan, Manuscripts, Barbarous barbers and other stories, Poets and poems, Victorian philosophy, Insects and Greek poetry, Complete lectures on art, literature and philosophy, Interpretations Of Literature, Los Diez Mil Rubies, history of English literature in a series of lectures, The Sharkmans Thanks, Kaidan, In einem japanischen Garten, Japan's religions; Shinto and Buddhism, orange Christmas, Creole cook book, cuisine creole, Tales out of the East, Literary essays, Kwaidan Stories And Studies Of Strange Things, Tales from Lafcadio Hearn, Kottō, On literature, The Spirit of the Tree, Miscellanies, new radiance, Fantômes japonais, Shadows on shoji, Japan - An Attempt At Interpretation, English romantic poets, Occidental Gleanings, Oriental articles, Tales and essays from old Japan, old woman who lost her dumpling, Essays on American literature, by Lafcadio Hearn, O Espirito da Arvore, Strange stories =, Children of the levee, Japan and the Japanese, Letters to and from various persons, Sketches and tales from the French, Some Strange English Literary Figures of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Koizumi Yagumo shū, Essays on American literature, Kotto, Kokoro, Lands and seas, Chita: a memory of Last Island, Earless Ho Ichi, Stories and sketches, American miscellany, Editorials of Lafcadio Hearn, Letters, Talks To Writers, Clarence John Laughlin, Kyushu, Journey from Beyond, La cuisine creole, Kottō; being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs, Shadowings ..., El Espiritu del Arbol, Japanese fairy tales, Books and habits, A history of English literature in a series of lectures, Japan, Kokoro, Kwaidan, "Out of the east.", The romance of the Milky Way, Selected writings, Some new letters and writings of Lafcadio Hearn, Stray leaves from strange literature, Writings from Japan, The writings of Lafcadio Hearn More
    Lefkada
    United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Japan, Empire of Japan
    Male
  24. 24
    1961
    Don't Move
    Dublin
    Italy, Republic of Ireland
    Female
  25. 25

    Ninette de Valois

    1898
    Invitation to the ballet, Selected poems, Come Dance With Me
    County Wicklow
    Republic of Ireland
    Female

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