The Battle of Grand Gulf was fought on April 29, 1863, during th: Irish writers, living at a time when all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, include Oscar Wilde,[414] Bram Stoker[415] and George Bernard Shaw.[416] There have been many authors whose origins were from outside the United Kingdom but who moved to the UK, including Joseph Conrad,[417] T. S. Eliot,[418] Kazuo Ishiguro,[419] Sir Salman Rushdie[420] and Ezra Pound.[421]