Question: The Auden Group or the Auden Generation is a group of British and Irish writers active in the 1930s that included who, which was an Irish poet and playwright?
Context: Jack Harte is an Irish short story writer and novelist.  He founded the Irish Writers' Union and the Irish Writers' Centre. Sir Samuel Ferguson (10 March 1810 – 9 August 1886) was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant.  Perhaps the most important Irish poet of the 19th century, because of his interest in Irish mythology and early Irish history he can be seen as a forerunner of William Butler Yeats and the other poets of the Irish Literary Revival. Poems is the title of three separate collections of the early poetry of W. H. Auden.  Auden refused to title his early work because he wanted the reader to confront the poetry itself.  Consequently, his first book was called simply "Poems" when it was printed by his friend and fellow poet Stephen Spender in 1928; he used the same title for the very different book published by Faber & Faber in 1930 (second edition 1933), and by Random House in 1934 (which also included "The Orators" and "The Dance of Death"). Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet and playwright.  He was part of the generation of the Auden Group that included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.  MacNeice's body of work was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due in part to his relaxed, but socially and emotionally aware style.  Never as overtly (or simplistically) political as some of his contemporaries, his work shows a humane opposition to totalitarianism as well as an acute awareness of his Irish roots. The Auden Group or the Auden Generation is a group of British and Irish writers active in the 1930s that included W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, and sometimes Edward Upward and Rex Warner.  They were sometimes called simply the Thirties poets (see "References"). Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (christened Francis Behan) ( ; Irish: "Breandán Ó Beacháin" ; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish Republican, poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish.  He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time. Thomas McCarthy (born 1954) is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic, born in Cappoquin, Co.  Waterford, Ireland.  He attended University College Cork where he was part of a resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of John Montague.  Among his contemporaries, described by Thomas Dillon Redshaw as "that remarkable generation," there were Theo Dorgan poet and memoirist, Sean Dunne, poet, Greg Delanty, poet, Maurice Riordan poet and William Wall, novelist and poet.  McCarthy edited, at various times, The Cork Review and Poetry Ireland Review.  He has published seven collections of poetry with Anvil Press Poetry, London, including " The Sorrow Garden", "The Lost Province", "Mr Dineen's Careful Parade", "The Last Geraldine Officer" ("a major achievement", in the view of academic and poet Maurice Harmon)and "Merchant Prince", described as "an ambitious and substantive book".  The main themes of his poetry are Southern Irish politics, love and memory.  He is also the author of two novels; "Without Power" and "Asya and Christine".  He is married with two children and lives in Cork City where he works in the City Libraries.  He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1977.  His monograph "Rising from the Ashes" tells the story of the burning of the Carnegie Free Library in Cork City by the Black and Tans in 1920 and the subsequent efforts to rebuild the collection with the help of donors from all over the world. The Dublin Writers Museum was opened in November 1991 at No 18, Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland.  The museum occupies an original 18th-century house, which accommodates the museum rooms, library, gallery, and administration area.  The annexe behind it has a coffee shop and bookshop on the ground floor and exhibition and lecture rooms on the floors above.  The Irish Writers' Centre, next door in No 19, contains the meeting rooms and offices of the Irish Writers’ Union, the Society of Irish Playwrights, the Irish Children's Book Trust and the Irish Translators' & Interpreters' Association.  The basement beneath both houses is occupied by the Chapter One restaurant. Fred Johnston (born 1951) is an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic and musician.  He is the founder and current director of the Western Writers' Centre in Galway.  He co-founded the Irish Writers' Co-operative in 1974, and founded Galway's annual Cúirt International Festival of Literature in 1986. Alan Ansen (January 23, 1922 – November 12, 2006) was an American poet, playwright, and associate of Beat Generation writers.  He was a widely read scholar who knew many languages.  Ansen grew up on Long Island and was educated at Harvard.  He worked as W. H. Auden's secretary and research assistant in 1948-49; he was the main author of the chronological tables in Auden's "The Portable Greek Reader" and "Poets of the English Language".
Answer: Louis MacNeice