The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Yeats in 1923, Shaw in 1925, Beckett in 1969 and Heaney in 1995. Visit the Nobel site for their biographies, acceptance speeches, and more. CELT is a collection of online text documents related to Irish literature, history and politics. The texts can be searched, read on-screen, downloaded, and printed out. From 'The Annals of the Four Masters' to writings by Oscar Wilde, this University College Cork project is a wonderful resource.
Literary figures tend to have interesting graves.
See the final resting places of Brendan Behan , Oscar Wilde , W.B. Yeats , James Joyce and many others. Find out about upcoming workshops on all sorts of writing at The Irish Writers' Centre . Details of upcoming readings too, and a list of literary journals, links, information on competitions and an online newsletter. Read new writing in issues of the Electric Acorn at the Dublin Writer's Workshop site. Here's a handy overview of Dublin literature which includes info on the Dublin Writers Museum , housed in a splendid mansion just north of the city centre.