Question: Kepler is a novel by an Irish novelist who was born in what year?
Context: Michael Collins (born 1964) is an Irish novelist and international ultra-distance runner.  His novel "The Keepers of Truth" was shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize.  He has also won the Irish Novel of the Year Award and the "Lucien Barriere Literary Prize" at the Deauville American Film Festival.  The award honours the best American Fiction published in France.  Collins is a graduate of Oxford University. Tana French (born 1973) is an Irish novelist and theatrical actress born in Vermont.  Her debut novel "In the Woods" (2007), a psychological mystery, won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for best first novel.  She lives in Dublin.  The British online newspaper, "The Independent", has referred to her as the First Lady of Irish Crime, "who very quietly has become a huge international name among crime fiction readers." 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. 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. 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." 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. The High Road is a 1988 novel by Irish novelist Edna O'Brien.  The novel follows an unnamed Irish protagonist as she recovers on a Mediterranean island.  It was O'Brien's tenth novel, published 11 years after "Johnny I Hardly Knew You." Schopenhauer's Telescope is the debut novel of Irish novelist and poet Gerard Donovan.  Published in 2003, the book received general acclaim, appearing on the long list for the Man Booker Prize and garnering the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award the following year.  In 2005, the novel was long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Kepler is a novel by John Banville, first published in 1981. Broken Harbour is a crime novel written by Irish novelist Tana French, originally published on 2 July 2012 by Hatchette Books Ireland.  It is the 4th book in the "Dublin Murder Squad" series and was first published in the USA by Viking Penguin a member of the Penguin Group (USA).  Tana French was honored with the 'Irish Crime Fiction Award' a bestseller list, eventually reaching the No.3 position.  It was also listed in the 'Ireland AM Crime Fiction Books of the Year 2009–2013'.
Answer: 1945