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The list Irish literary critics includes C.S. Lewis, James Joyce, Edmond Malone, Vivian Mercier and Fintan O'Toole. The list consists of 32 members and 2 sublists.
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    Bram Stoker
    Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)
    Bram Stoker
    Overview: Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant ...
    Date of birth: 8 November 1847
    Date of death: 20 April 1912
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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    19th-century Irish non-fiction writers 3T
    19th-century Irish male writers 6T
    19th-century Irish short story writers 12T
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    C.S. Lewis
    British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
    C.S. Lewis
    Overview: Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) ...
    Date of birth: 29 November 1898
    Date of death: 22 November 1963
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Writers from Oxford 10T
    Fantasy writers from Northern Ireland 1T
    Literary critics from Northern Ireland 2T
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    James Joyce
    Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
    James Joyce
    Overview: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most ...
    Date of birth: 2 February 1882
    Date of death: 13 January 1941
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    Burials at Fluntern Cemetery 6T
    20th-century Irish journalists 4T
    20th-century letter writers 21T
  • 4.

    Edmond Malone
    Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor
    Edmond Malone
    Overview: Edmond Malone (4 October 1741 – 25 May 1812) was an Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor of the works of William Shakespeare.
    Date of birth: 4 October 1741
    Date of death: 25 April 1812
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Writer
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    Members of The Club 180T
    Joshua Reynolds 14T
    Shakespearean scholars 197T
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    Justin Quinn
    Irish poet
    Justin Quinn
    Overview: Justin Quinn (born 1968 in Dublin) is an Irish poet and critic. He received a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, where his contemporaries included poets David Wheatley, Caitriona O'Reilly and Sinéad ...
    Date of birth: 10 July 1968
    Age: 56
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Writer
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    Irish poets 601T
    People associated with Trinity College Dublin 177T
    Alumni of Trinity College, Dublin 2,139T
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    Fintan O'Toole
    Irish journalist, literary editor and polemicist (born 1958)
    Overview: Fintan O'Toole (born 16 February 1958) is an Irish columnist, literary editor, and drama critic for The Irish Times, for which he has written since 1988. O'Toole was drama critic for the New York Daily ...
    Date of birth: 1958
    Age: 66
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Journalist
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    People from Crumlin, Dublin 15T
    The New York Review of Books people 48T
    New York Daily News people 44T
  • 7.

    Sinéad Gleeson
    Irish author and artist
    Overview: Sinéad Gleeson is an Irish Book Award-winning writer, editor and freelance broadcaster. Having edited the work of others, in 2016's The Long Gaze Back and 2017's The Glass Shore, she released her first ...
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Critic
    Gender: Female
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    Elizabeth Sican
    Irish literary critic
    Overview: Elizabeth Sican was an Irish literary critic. She was part of Jonathan Swift's "triumfeminate," along with Mary Barber and Constantia Grierson. Little is known of her apart from her participation in Swift's ...
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Graham Allen (writer, academic)
    Writer and academic from Ireland
    Graham Allen (writer, academic)
    Overview: Graham Allen (born December 23, 1963) is a writer and academic from Cork city, Ireland. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The Madhouse System (2016) and The One That Got Away (2014). He is ...
    Date of birth: 23 December 1963
    Age: 61
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Critic
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    Overview: Erik Martiny (born 11 June 1971) is a Franco-Irish-Swedish novelist, academic and journalist who teaches at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. His reviews on art and literature have appeared in The Times Literary ...
    Date of birth: 11 June 1971
    Age: 53
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Critic
    Gender: Male
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    Roz Cowman
    Irish poet and critic
    Overview: Roz Cowman (born 1942), is an Irish poet and critic.
    Date of birth: 1942
    Age: 82
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Critic
    Gender: Female
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    Eileen Battersby
    American-born Irish journalist
    Overview: Eileen Battersby (née Whiston; 4 June 1956 – 23 December 2018) was the chief literary critic of The Irish Times. She sometimes divided opinion, having been described by John Banville as "the finest fiction ...
    Date of birth: 1958
    Date of death: 23 December 2018
    Age: 60 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Critic
    Gender: Female
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    Patricia Craig (writer)
    Northern Irish writer and anthropologist
    Overview: Patricia Craig (born 1952) is a writer, anthologist and literary critic from Northern Ireland, living in Antrim, County Antrim.
    Date of birth: 1952
    Age: 72
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Critic
    Gender: Female
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    Overview: John Wilson Foster FRSC (born 1942) is an Irish literary critic and cultural historian.
    Date of birth: 1942
    Age: 82
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Critic
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    Overview: Bernard Share (1930-2013) was an Irish novelist, critic, editor, and lecturer on modern literature. His novels include Inish and Transit. He also wrote an account of World-War-II-era Irish life, titled ...
    Date of birth: 1930
    Date of death: 2013
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Critic
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    Laurence Patrick Byrne
    Irish journalist and literary critic
    Overview: Laurence Patrick "Larry" Byrne (1888–1939) was an Irish journalist and literary critic who wrote extensively on the Irish Literary Revival under the pen name Andrew E. Malone. Born and raised in Dublin ...
    Date of birth: 1888
    Date of death: 1939
    Age: 50 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Critic
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    John Reade
    Canadian writer
    Overview: John Reade (November 13, 1837 – March 26, 1919) was an Irish-born Canadian journalist, essayist, and poet once considered "the grand old man of Canadian letters." He is best known as the literary editor ...
    Date of birth: 13 November 1837
    Date of death: 26 March 1919
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
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    19th-century Canadian essayists 8T
    Canadian male essayists 60T
    British male essayists 86T
  • 18.
    Joseph O'Neill (born 1964)
    Overview: Joseph O'Neill is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Overview: Desmond Clarke (1907 – 25 May 1979) was an Irish librarian, writer and former president of the Library Association of Ireland. Clarke was the biographer of various Irish figures including Arthur ...
    Date of birth: 1907
    Date of death: 25 May 1979
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Irish male non-fiction writers 92T
    Irish literary editors 4T
    Bibliographers 73T
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    Edna Longley
    Irish literary critic
    Overview: Edna Longley (born 1940) is an Irish literary critic and cultural commentator specialising in modern Irish and British poetry.
    Date of birth: 1940
    Age: 84
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Critic
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    Women literary critics 423T
    Irish scholars and academics 298T
    Alumni of Trinity College, Dublin 2,139T
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