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>great Irish writer
>check Early Life on Wikipedia
>he was a Protestant of English descent

>> No.21538799

name 39

>> No.21538802

>>21538799
>name 39 great Irish writers
Anon, I…

>> No.21538804

>that's all that was notable for OP
>He didn't get as far as the section where Wikipedia tries to explain away his resurrection after death

>> No.21538805

>>21538802
Conrad, 39 times

>> No.21538813

>>21538804
kek'd, based and blessed

>> No.21538824

>>21538799
Sterne, Swift, Yeats, Synge, Wilde, Beckett, Shaw, Stoker, Lewis, Dunsany. That's ten. Now name ten great Irish writers from Catholic families.

>> No.21538836

>>21538805
Joseph Conrad? The Polish-Ukrainian man who lived in England?

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>>21538791
anybody seen Banshees of Innisherin yet?

>> No.21539435

>>21538824
>Beckett
>Samuel Barclay Beckett was born in the Foxrock suburb of Dublin on 13 April 1906, the son of William Frank Beckett (1871–1933), a quantity surveyor of Huguenot descent.
He was of French descent, not English.
> Lewis
C. S. Lewis? He's not seen as Irish. He was British. Father's family came from Wales.