 Joyce's 1922 novel "[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]" is considered one of the most important works of [[Modernist literature]] and his life is celebrated annually on 16 June in Dublin as "[[Bloomsday]]".A comparable writer in Irish is , whose novel is regarded as a modernist masterpiece and has been translated into several languages.Modern Irish literature is often connected with its rural heritage through English-language writers such as [[John McGahern]] and [[Seamus Heaney]] and Irish-language writers such as and others from the .