Desmond Hogan (born 10 December 1950) is an Irish writer.
 Awarded the 1977 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and 1980 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, his oeuvre comprises novels, plays, short stories and travel writing.
Anne Haverty (born 1959) is an Irish novelist and poet.
 Haverty was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the Sorbonne and in 1992 won a scholarship to the European Film School at Ebeltoft in Denmark.
 Among Haverty's novels, "One Day as a Tiger" won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1997.
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.
Dark Lies the Island is the second short story collection by Irish writer Kevin Barry.
 His previous short story collection, "There Are Little Kingdoms", won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature was created in 1976 by the Irish American businessman Dan Rooney, owner and chairman of the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers franchise and former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.
 The prize is awarded to Irish writers aged under 40 who are published in Irish or English.
 Although often associated with individual books, it is intended to reward a body of work.
 Originally worth £750, the current value of the prize is €10,000.
One Day as a Tiger is the first novel by Irish author Anne Haverty.
 Published in 1997 it was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award that year and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
Ronan Sheehan (born 1953) is an Irish novelist, short story writer and essayist.
 He was an early member of the Irish Writers' Co-operative (founded in 1974 by Fred Johnston, Neil Jordan and Peter Sheridan) and its Secretary from 1975 to 1983.
 He received the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1984.
 Until 2005 he was a practising lawyer in Dublin, specialising in copyright law.
 He was the General Editor of the Catullus Project to translate works by Catullus into English and Irish.
Daniel Milton Rooney (July 20, 1932 – April 13, 2017) was chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American football team in the National Football League (NFL), and son of the Steelers' founder, Art Rooney.
 Dan Rooney was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000 for his contributions to the game.
 He was credited with spearheading a requirement that NFL teams with head coach and general manager vacancies interview at least one minority candidate, which has become known as the "Rooney Rule".
Anne Teresa Enright FRSL (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish author.
 She has published novels, short stories, essays, and one non-fiction book.
 A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her novel "The Gathering" won the 2007 Man Booker Prize.
 She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year.
Born in Manchester, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia under Malcolm Bradbury.
 His first book, "The Miracle Shed" (1995), a collection of short stories, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and in 2000 he was awarded the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize.

Question: What NFL team was owned by the creator of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature?
Answer: Pittsburgh Steelers