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Arts and crafts in Northern Ireland

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Ian Cochrane

(Born 1941 in Moylarg in Antrim), Fiction

Cochrane is an Irish novelist known for his often dark honour and jokey titles like Ladybird in a Loony-bin and Jesus on a Stick.

Seamus Heaney

(Born 1939 in Castledawson in Londonderry), Poetry

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Heaney in 1995. they described his writing as -works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.

Clive Staples Lewis

(Born 1898 in Belfast in Antrim), Fiction

Perhaps best known for writing the Chronicles of Narnia C.S.Lewis was a scholar and novelist born in Belfast.

George William Russell

(Born 1867 in Lurgan in Armagh), Fiction, Painting, Poetry

Russell was a writer, poet, artist and more. He wrote two novels, The Interpreters and The Avatars. There is a bust of Russell in Merrion Square in Dublin. There is also a plaque on 84 Merrion Square that reads, George William Russell AE 1867 – 1935 Poet Mystic Painter Co-operator worked here.

John OKane Murray

(Born 1847 in Antrim), Nonfiction

Physician and author of books on Irish poets and poetry, lessons in English literature, biographies and history.

Patrick Bronte

(Born 1777 in Rathfriland in Down), Fiction, Poetry

The father of the famous Bronte sisters, Patrick was a poet and writer. He actually changed his name from Brunty.