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Joseph O'Connor Joseph Victor O'Connor is an Irish novelist. His 2002 historical novel "Star of the Sea" was an international number one bestseller. Before success as an author he was a journalist with the "Sunday Tribune" newspaper and "Esquire magazine". He is a regular contributor to Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). He is a member of the Irish artists' association Aosdána.
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Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( ; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, "Under the Net", was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Her books include "The Bell" (1958), "A Severed Head" (1961), "The Red and the Green" (1965), "The Nice and the Good" (1968), "The Black Prince" (1973), "Henry and Cato" (1976), "The Sea, the Sea" (1978, Booker Prize), "The Philosopher's Pupil" (1983), "The Good Apprentice" (1985), "The Book and the Brotherhood" (1987), "The Message to the Planet" (1989), and "The Green Knight" (1993). In 2008, "The Times" ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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Julia O'Faolain Julia O'Faolain (born June 6, 1932 in London) is an Irish novelist and short story writer. Her parents were Irish writers Seán Ó Faoláin and Eileen Gould.
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Ralph Connor Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon, or Ralph Connor, (September 13, 1860 – October 31, 1937) was a Canadian novelist, using the Connor pen name while maintaining his status as a Church leader, first in the Presbyterian and later the United churches in Canada. Gordon was also at one time a master at Upper Canada College. He sold more than five million copies of his works in his lifetime, and some of his works are still in print.
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Doris E. Smith Doris Edna Smith (née Elliott) (12 August 1919 – before 1994) was an Irish writer of over 20 gothic and romance novels. In 1969, her novel "Comfort and Keep" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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John Banim John Banim (3 April 1798 – 30 August 1842), was an Irish novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet and essayist, sometimes called the "Scott of Ireland." He also studied art, working as a painter of miniatures and portraits, and as a drawing teacher, before dedicating himself to literature.
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Caitlin Davies Caitlin Davies (born 1964) is an English author, journalist and teacher. Her parents are Hunter Davies and Margaret Forster, both well-known writers. Hunter Davies wrote regularly about Caitlin and her brother Jake and sister Flora in a weekly "Punch" magazine column which ran in the 1970s, giving a broad insight into their upbringing. In her youth she was also frequently referred to by Auberon Waugh in his "Private Eye" diary.
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Philip Ó Ceallaigh Philip Ó Ceallaigh (born 23 March 1968) is an Irish short story writer living in Bucharest. The New Zealand writer Charlotte Grimshaw described him as a "clever Irish writer". Michel Faber, in "The Guardian", described his control of tone, dialogue and narrative contour as "masterful". Ó Ceallaigh won the 2006 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was the first Irish writer to be shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
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Norman Harper Norman Harper (born 7 September 1957) is an author, book editor, journalist and broadcaster, and for 27 years was a writer, features editor, and latterly leader-writer and columnist with the Scottish newspaper, the "Press and Journal". He is the author of the successful "Stronach" book series and "Spik o the Place",
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Mary Manning (writer) Mary Manning Howe Adams (30 June 1905 – 27 June 1999) was an Irish novelist, playwright and film critic.
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Joseph Fogerty Joseph Fogerty, CE, FRIBA, was an Irish civil engineer, architect, and novelist active in mid-to-late-nineteenth-century Limerick, London, and Vienna.
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Eva O'Connor Eva O'Connor is an Irish stage actress and playwright.
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Forty Words for Sorrow Forty Words for Sorrow is a crime novel from Canadian novelist Giles Blunt, and the first to feature his protagonists John Cardinal and Lise Delorme. Blunt had previous published one other novel, "Cold Eye", but this was his first crime novel, and the first to be a critical and commercial success. The novel won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger in 2001.
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Tony Connor John Anthony Connor (born 1930) is an English poet and playwright.
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Murdoch Mysteries Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian television drama series aired on both City and CBC Television (titled The Artful Detective on the Ovation cable TV network) featuring Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario, around the turn of the twentieth century. The television series is based on characters from the novel series by Maureen Jennings.
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Eveline "Eveline" is a short story by the Irish writer James Joyce. It was first published in 1904 by the journal "Irish Homestead" and later featured in his 1914 collection of short stories "Dubliners".
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine The Sacred and Profane Love Machine is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1974, it was her sixteenth novel. It won the Whitbread Novel Award for 1974.
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Thomas O'Brien Butler Thomas O'Brien Butler (3 November 1861 – 7 May 1915; lost on the "Lusitania"), Irish composer whose chief claim to fame is the Irish-language opera "Muirgheis" (1903).
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Edwin O'Connor Edwin O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel "The Edge of Sadness" (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests.
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Richard Hughes (journalist) Richard Joseph Hughes CBE (5 March 19064 January 1984) was an Australian journalist who spent much of his life in the Far East as correspondent for "The Times", "The Economist" and the "Far Eastern Economic Review". He was the inspiration for the fictional character Dikko Henderson in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel "You Only Live Twice", and for 'Old Craw' in John le Carré's "The Honourable Schoolboy".
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Iain Hollingshead Iain Hollingshead (born 31 October 1980) is a British freelance journalist and novelist.
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Jane Urquhart Jane Urquhart, Order of Canada OC (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet born in Little Long Lac, Ontario. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories. As a novelist, Urquhart is well known for her evocative style which blends history with the present day. Her first novel, "The Whirlpool" (published 1986), gained her international recognition when she became the first Canadian to win France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Best Foreign Book Award). Her subsequent novels were even more successful. "Away", published in 1993, won the Trillium Award and was a national bestseller. In 1997, her fourth novel, "The Underpainter", won the Governor General's Literary Award.