Can you name the authors of these works of Irish literature?

Work	Author
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Gulliver's Travels
Tristram Shandy
The Vicar of Wakefield
The School for Scandal
The Minstrel Boy
The Importance of Being Earnest
Dracula
The Playboy of the Western World
Pygmalion

Work	Author
Ulysses
The Tower
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Heat of the Day
Waiting for Godot
Borstal Boy
The Third Policeman
The Commitments
Dancing at Lughnasa
Seeing Things

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Irish Authors Quiz

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Created by: davidr -
Published: July 20th, 2009
Category: Literature
Plays: 19,401

Tags: Novel Quizzes, irish, author

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	Manders:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 04:16 GMT	2 points
	I always forget that C.S. Lewis was an Ulsterman...

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	Tchaikovsky08:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 04:22 GMT	7 points
	@chikka2: Irish writers indeed rock -- they shamrock

	fatbeard:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 04:23 GMT	1 point
	The Commitments. Both a great book and a great movie. Thinking about it made my day

	chikka2:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 04:36 GMT	3 points
	Irish writers rock!

	archimboldi:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 04:54 GMT	2 points
	The Third Policeman is such an awesome book!

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	zalagreensbury:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 05:17 GMT	1 point
	R.I.P Frank Mccourt. He died earlier today.

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	MRD:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 05:57 GMT	1 point
	Aw I loved Angela's Ashes, such a good book. Sad to hear of his death.

	lyricsfreak:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 06:01 GMT	1 point
	I'm quite proud of my 7/20, plus this quiz gives me a list of books to read

	windcriesmary666:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 06:32 GMT	-2 points
	its missing darren shan

	MovieDynamic:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 06:39 GMT	0 points
	By the way, when are we going to get the "e" game? We got the "d" one a long time ago and I've been waiting for it!

	davidr:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 07:43 GMT	4 points
	@smacaskill: I think he was absolutely an Irish author, even though his work could reasonably be classed under French literature.

	gracie:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 08:13 GMT	2 points
	i didn't know most of these authors were irish. thanks sporcle...teaches me something new every day

	[Deleted]:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 10:22 GMT	-1 points
	@davidr: If you want to count him as Irish, then you can't count the author of Gulliver's Travels for the same reason - he was born in England and moved to Ireland. I would classify Waiting for Godot as French Literature (especially since it was written in French.) My point is this quiz isn't consistent in what qualifies as Irish Lit.

	Fitzgib:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 11:47 GMT	6 points
	@smacaskill: Jonathan Swift was born at No. 7, Hoey's Court, Dublin.

	davidr:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 12:20 GMT	3 points
	@smacaskill: I'm sorry but I see no inconsistency. Many of these authors spent substantial portions of their life outside Ireland but every single one of them was born in there — either in the north or the republic — and had strong associations with the island. FYI, Ulysses, Pygmalion, Narnia, Dracula and Earnest were all written outside Ireland.

	GeordieGuitarist:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 12:34 GMT	-2 points
	No Iris Murdoch?

	JC:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 12:49 GMT	8 points
	if only more people remembered that Irish culture is much deeper than green beer and leprachuans

	davidr:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 13:28 GMT	-3 points
	@GeordieGuitarist: She was born in Ireland but her parents moved to England while she was a young child and she lived her whole life there. I don't think she's usually thought of as Irish.

	davidr:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 13:28 GMT	3 points
	@John C.: Isn't green beer an American thing? Does it actually exist in Ireland?

	jzev:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 13:49 GMT	3 points
	I knew i shoulda just tried o'brien

	JC:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 14:02 GMT	3 points
	davidr, my point is regarding the perception of Irish culture amongst Americans, many of whom claim to be of Irish decent

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	GeordieGuitarist:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 17:35 GMT	-2 points
	@davidr: If you are born in Ireland, you are Irish.

	Djibouti:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 22:51 GMT	2 points
	I always remember Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal, but can never remember he wrote Gulliver's Travels. I guess that book needed more baby eating.

	Ireland:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 23:01 GMT	-3 points
	100% Irish, but only got 7 out of 20!

	Catherine_F:	Jul 26th, 2009 at 13:05 GMT	5 points
	@GeordieGuitarist: even if your mother only popped over to Dublin for a weekend (having lived in, say, Newcastle her entire life) and you chose that moment to be born - but then you spent the rest of your life living and working back in England?

	willwoodlen:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 18:55 GMT	2 points
	late to comment, but I enjoyed this quiz. Three-quarters Irish and I got 13; missed Roddy Doyle, unfortuntely. A woman or two, say Maria Edgeworth or Edna O'Brien, would have been nice.

	daHOOK:	May 29th, 2010 at 04:59 GMT	1 point
	I thought of the opera instead of the book for the School for Scandal

	boston_sports:	Nov 17th, 2010 at 00:07 GMT	2 points
	@ Catherine_F: In the US, anyone born in the US is a US citizen. (This sometimes causes problems regarding illegal immigrants, who come across the border to give birth.) I don't know if you would identify as being American though.