Irish literature

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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.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Irish literature canonical 6
Anglo-Irish literature 2
Irish theatre 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (101)

Predicate Object
instanceOf literature
national literature
country Ireland
hasAward Nobel Prize in Literature
hasGenre annals
autobiography
drama
epic
hagiography
lyric poetry
mythology
novel
satire
short story
travel writing
hasInstitution Abbey Theatre
Field Day Theatre Company
Gaelic League
linked to: Conradh na Gaeilge

Irish Literary Society
hasLanguage English
Irish
Latin
hasMovement Celtic Revival
Irish Literary Revival
Irish modernism
Irish postmodernism
Northern Irish Troubles literature
hasNobelLaureate George Bernard Shaw
Samuel Beckett
Seamus Heaney
W. B. Yeats
linked to: W.B. Yeats
hasPart Anglo-Irish literature
linked to: Irish literature

Hiberno-Latin literature
linked to: Medieval Latin

Irish drama
Irish fiction
Irish mythology
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
linked to: Irish literature

Early modern Irish literature
linked to: Early Modern Irish

Irish Literary Revival
Medieval Irish literature
linked to: Irish literature
influenced modernist literature
postcolonial literature
world literature
influencedBy British literature
Celtic mythology
Christian monastic culture
European modernism
notableAuthor Anne Enright
Austin Clarke
Bram Stoker
Brendan Behan
Brian Friel
Colm Tóibín
Eavan Boland
Edna O'Brien
Flann O'Brien
George Bernard Shaw
J. M. Synge
James Joyce
John Banville
John Montague
Jonathan Swift
Louis MacNeice
Maria Edgeworth
Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Oliver Goldsmith
Oscar Wilde
Patrick Kavanagh
Pádraic Ó Conaire
Roddy Doyle
Samuel Beckett
Seamus Heaney
Seán O'Casey
linked to: Sean O'Casey

W. B. Yeats
linked to: W.B. Yeats
notableWork Dracula
Dubliners
Gulliver's Travels
Lebor Gabála Érenn
The Annals of the Four Masters
The Book of Ballymote
The Book of Kells
linked to: Book of Kells

The Book of Leinster
linked to: Book of Leinster

The Commitments
The Country Girls
The Cycles of the Kings
The Fenian Cycle
linked to: Fenian cycle

The Mythological Cycle
linked to: Mythological Cycle

The Playboy of the Western World
The Ulster Cycle
linked to: Ulster Cycle

Translations
Táin Bó Cúailnge
linked to: Ulster Cycle

Ulysses
Waiting for Godot

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

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

Blazes Boylan partOf Irish literature
Edgeworthstown associatedWithLiteraryMovement Anglo-Irish literature
linked to: Irish literature
Dubliners influenced Irish literature
Irish Literary Revival movementInfluenced Irish theatre
linked to: Irish literature
George Sigerson fieldOfWork Irish literature
Pádraic Delaney hasWorkedIn Irish theatre
linked to: Irish literature
Irish nationalism hasCulturalExpression Irish literature
Irish literature hasPart Anglo-Irish literature
linked to: Irish literature
Irish literature hasPeriod Early Irish literature
linked to: Irish literature
Irish literature hasPeriod Medieval Irish literature
linked to: Irish literature
Blazes Boylan partOf Irish literature
subject linked to: Boylan
Shaun appearsInWorkBy Irish literature