Irish literature

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literature national literature

Irish literature is the body of written and oral works produced in Ireland or by Irish writers, encompassing texts in Irish, English, and Latin and spanning from ancient mythological cycles to contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Irish literature canonical	3
Irish theatre	2
Anglo-Irish literature	1

Statements (101)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literature ⓘ national literature ⓘ
country	Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasAward	Nobel Prize in Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasGenre	annals ⓘ autobiography ⓘ drama ⓘ epic ⓘ hagiography ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ mythology ⓘ novel ⓘ satire ⓘ short story ⓘ travel writing ⓘ
hasInstitution	Abbey Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ Field Day Theatre Company NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaelic League NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish Literary Society NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguage	English ⓘ Irish ⓘ Latin ⓘ
hasMovement	Celtic Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish Literary Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish modernism NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish postmodernism ⓘ Northern Irish Troubles literature ⓘ
hasNobelLaureate	George Bernard Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Beckett NERFINISHED ⓘ Seamus Heaney NERFINISHED ⓘ W. B. Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart	Anglo-Irish literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Hiberno-Latin literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish drama ⓘ Irish fiction ⓘ Irish mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish oral tradition ⓘ Irish poetry ⓘ Irish short story tradition ⓘ Irish-language literature ⓘ
hasPeriod	18th-century Irish literature ⓘ 19th-century Irish literature ⓘ 20th-century Irish literature ⓘ Contemporary Irish literature ⓘ Early Irish literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Early modern Irish literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish Literary Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ Medieval Irish literature NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	modernist literature ⓘ postcolonial literature ⓘ world literature ⓘ
influencedBy	British literature ⓘ Celtic mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ Christian monastic culture ⓘ European modernism ⓘ
notableAuthor	Anne Enright NERFINISHED ⓘ Austin Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ Bram Stoker NERFINISHED ⓘ Brendan Behan NERFINISHED ⓘ Brian Friel NERFINISHED ⓘ Colm Tóibín NERFINISHED ⓘ Eavan Boland NERFINISHED ⓘ Edna O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ Flann O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ George Bernard Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ J. M. Synge NERFINISHED ⓘ James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ John Banville NERFINISHED ⓘ John Montague NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonathan Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis MacNeice NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria Edgeworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Máirtín Ó Cadhain NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Goldsmith NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Wilde NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Kavanagh NERFINISHED ⓘ Pádraic Ó Conaire NERFINISHED ⓘ Roddy Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Beckett NERFINISHED ⓘ Seamus Heaney NERFINISHED ⓘ Seán O'Casey NERFINISHED ⓘ W. B. Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWork	Dracula NERFINISHED ⓘ Dubliners NERFINISHED ⓘ Gulliver's Travels NERFINISHED ⓘ Lebor Gabála Érenn NERFINISHED ⓘ The Annals of the Four Masters NERFINISHED ⓘ The Book of Ballymote NERFINISHED ⓘ The Book of Kells NERFINISHED ⓘ The Book of Leinster NERFINISHED ⓘ The Commitments NERFINISHED ⓘ The Country Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cycles of the Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fenian Cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mythological Cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ The Playboy of the Western World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ulster Cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ Translations ⓘ Táin Bó Cúailnge NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulysses NERFINISHED ⓘ Waiting for Godot NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Blazes Boylan → partOf → Irish literature ⓘ

Edgeworthstown → associatedWithLiteraryMovement → Irish literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anglo-Irish literature

Dubliners → influenced → Irish literature ⓘ

Irish Literary Revival → movementInfluenced → Irish literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Irish theatre

George Sigerson → fieldOfWork → Irish literature ⓘ

Pádraic Delaney → hasWorkedIn → Irish literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Irish theatre