/lit/ - Literature

Are they the p4p best literary nation for such a tiny population of 5M?

>W.B. Yeats (One of the greatest modern poets)
>Samuel Beckett (Greatest playwright since Shakespeare)
>James Joyce (Arguably the greatest novelist of all time)
>Oscar Wilde (Wrote one of the most influential novels of the 20th century)
>Seamus Heaney (One of the greatest contemporary poets and translators)
>George Bernard Shaw (Great playwright)
>Patrick Kavanagh
>Johnathon Swift (Gullivers travels)
>Bram Stoker (One of the greatest contributors to the Romantacist movement)
>Laurence Sterne (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman)
>John Millington
>Oliver Goldsmith (Vicar of Wakefield, She stoops to conquer)
>Cecil-Day Lewis
>CS Lewis
>Frank McCourt
>Patrick McCabe

slightly more tenuous but we can’t forget the diaspora:
>Cormac McCarthy
>Flannery O’Connor
>Ted Hughes
>F. Scott Fitzgerald

They have a fantastic ancient heroic mythology too:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenian_Cycle

They also invented the Limerick.

>>10731697
>>Russia has the best writers
>historically this is true,

>blocks your path