Question: Who is an irish novelist?
Context: The Sea is a 2013 British-Irish drama film directed by Stephen Brown.  It is based on the novel of the same name by John Banville, who also wrote the screenplay for the film.  The film premiered in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 23 June 2013.  The film had its North American premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Alan Monaghan (born May 6, 1970) is an Irish novelist.  He has been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards and has won the 2002 Hennessy New Irish Writer Award. 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. Mary O'Donoghue (born 1975) is an Irish fiction writer, poet, and translator.  She grew up in Co.  Clare, Ireland.  Her debut novel "Before the House Burns" was published in 2010, and is described by Booker Prize-winning Irish novelist Anne Enright as "Electric, real, and utterly modern: this is a voice to welcome and to watch."  Her short stories have been published in the "Georgia Review", the "Dublin Review", "AGNI", "Salamander", "Literary Imagination", "Stinging Fly", the "Irish Times", and elsewhere.  Her poetry collections are "Tulle" (2001) and "Among These Winters" (2007).  She is one of the translators of Irish-language poet Seán Ó Ríordáin; "Selected Poems" appeared from Yale University Press (Margellos World Republic of Letters) in 2014.  Across several years and bilingual volumes, she has collaborated with Louis de Paor on translations of his poetry, most recently "The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale’s Tongue" (Bloodaxe Books, 2014).  Mary O'Donoghue's writing awards include Hennessy/"Sunday Tribune" New Irish Writer; two artist’s fellowships from Massachusetts Cultural Council (2006 and 2012 ); "Irish Times"/ Legends of the Fall prize for short fiction responding to Ireland's economic crisis (2013); and residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts.  She is an associate professor of English in the Arts and Humanities division at Babson College, Massachusetts. House of Splendid Isolation is a 1994 novel by Irish novelist Edna O'Brien.  The novel depicts the relations of an Irish Republican Army terrorist and his hostage, an elderly woman.  The novel blends an attempt at thriller, with O'Brien's deep exploration of Irish society.  Reception of the novel was not very good, especially in comparison to O'Brien's previous novels. Brian O'Nolan (Irish: "Brian Ó Nualláin" ; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature.  Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature.  His English language novels, such as "At Swim-Two-Birds", and "The Third Policeman", were written under the "pen name" Flann O'Brien.  His many satirical columns in "The Irish Times" and an Irish language novel "An Béal Bocht" were written under the name Myles na gCopaleen. Bernard Share (1930-2013) was an Irish novelist, critic, editor, and lecturer on modern literature.  His novels include "Inish" and "Transit".  He also wrote an account of World-War-II-era Irish life, titled "The Emergency", and has published works on slang and notable quotations.  Several of his works have been reissued by Dalkey Archive Press, as part of the John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series. William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter.  Recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators, Banville is considered to be "one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today."  He has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov." Liam O'Flaherty (Irish: "Liam Ó Flaithearta" ; 28 August 1896 – 7 September 1984) was an Irish novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Irish literary renaissance.  He was a founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland.  His brother Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty (also a writer) was also involved in radical politics and their father, Maidhc Ó Flaithearta, before them.  A native Irish-speaker from the Gaeltacht, O'Flaherty wrote almost exclusively in English, except for a small number of short stories in Irish. Declan Hughes (born 1963) is an Irish novelist, playwright and screenwriter.  He has been Writer-in-Association with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and Irish Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.  He has written a series of crime novels featuring the Irish-American detective Ed Loy.  The name "Loy" is a homage to the character Sam Spade from "The Maltese Falcon": a loy is a traditional Irish spade.
Answer: is an Irish novelist