List of Irish dramatists
This is a list of playwrights either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. Playwrights whose work is in Irish are included.
A brief outline of the history of Irish theatre is also available.
A – J
- John Banim
- Sebastian Barry
- Samuel Beckett
- Brendan Behan
- Dermot Bolger
- Dion Boucicault (1820–1890)
- Colm Byrne
- Marina Carr
- Paul Vincent Carroll
- Anne-Marie Casey(1965-)
- Austin Clarke
- Padraic Colum
- William Congreve
- Máirín Cregan
- Geraldine Cummins
- Suzanne R. Day (1876-1964)
- Anne Devlin
- Roddy Doyle
- Gary Duggan
- Lord Dunsany
- St John Ervine
- Padraic Fallon
- George Farquhar
- Bernard Farrell
- George Fitzmaurice
- Gerard Mannix Flynn
- Miriam Gallagher (1940-)
- Ewen Glass
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Lady Augusta Gregory
- Gerald Griffin
- Michael Harding
- Declan Hughes
- Denis Johnston
- Jennifer Johnston
- Henry Jones
- Marie Jones
- James Joyce
K – Z
- Patrick Kavanagh
- John B. Keane
- Thomas Kilroy
- Hugh Leonard
- Walter Macken
- Micheál MacLiammoir
- Edward Martyn
- Martin McDonagh
- Frank McGuinness
- Conor McPherson
- Paul McSwiney
- M. J. Molloy
- George Moore
- Jimmy Murphy
- John Murphy
- Tom Murphy
- T. C. Murray
- Janet McNeill
- Áine Ní Ghlinn (born 1955)
- Sean O'Casey
- Joseph O'Connor
- Mary Devenport O'Neill
- Sean O'Rourke
- Mark O'Rowe
- Cathal Ó Searcaigh
- Lennox Robinson
- Billy Roche
- G. Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
- Peter Sheridan
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- George Shiels (1881–1949)
- John Millington Synge
- Colin Teevan
- Colm Tóibín
- Joseph Tomelty
- Mervyn Wall
- Enda Walsh
- Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
- W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)
See also
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