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 ⓘ