Ireland is steeped in literary history with all-time greats such as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, Patrick Kavanagh and many more. Read about these Irish writers and their lives in this section on Irish literature.

Satirist, cleric, and humanitarian Jonathan Swift is probably best known for his tongue-in-cheek call to the British, A Modest Proposal, in which he slyly suggested a novel solution to the ‘Irish problem’: raise Irish children as cattle for export, and feed them as delicacies on English dinner tables.

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