Oscar Wilde and others Irish writers

Oscar Wilde, born in 1854, is one of the most famous Irish writers. His first performance was The Importance of Being Earnest, which came out in 1895. The Irish poet and dramatist, dead in 1900, is also known for Winderman's Fan and The Picture of Dorian Gray. A statue in his honor has been erected in Marrion Square park, just in front a the Oscar Wilde's School.
To quote others famous Irish (or anglo-irish) writers, we can talk about James Joyce (1882-1941) with his novel Ulysses, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) with Gulliver's Travels and Bram Stoker (1847-1912), with Dracula.
It is true that Ireland is rich of talented writers, poets, dramatists, ... but this country and its past has also been - and still is ! - the inspiration of lots of foreigns writers.

To conclude this post, here is a quote from Oscar Wilde :

"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better,
they don't know anything at all."

Sources : [The Irish book of Lists, Julian Ashe and Wikipedia.org]

The Famine Monument

The Great Famine (Irish: An Gorta Mór lit: The Great Hunger or An Drochshaol, lit: The Bad Life) was a period of starvation, disease and mass emigration between 1845 and 1852 during which the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent. Approximately one million of the population died and a million more emigrated from Ireland's shores. The proximate cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as late blight. Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, the impact and human cost in Ireland—where a third of the population was entirely dependent on the potato for food—was exacerbated by a host of political, social and economic factors which remain the subject of historical debate.

Source : [Wikipedia.org]