This is a list of novelists either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. Novelists whose work is in Irish are included as well as those whose work is in English.

A - C

• John Banim (1798 - 1842)
• Michael Banim (1796 - 1874)
• John Banville (b. 1945 )
• Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
• Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
• Maeve Binchy (b. 1940}
• Dermot Bolger (b. 1959)
• Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
• William Carleton (1794 - 1869)
• Austin Clarke (1896 - 1974)
• Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972)

D - J

• Seamus Deane (b. 1940)
• Emma Donoghue (b. 1969)
• Roddy Doyle (b. 1958)
• Maria Edgeworth (1767 - 1849)
• Carlo Gebler (b. 1954)
• Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)
• Gerald Griffin (1803 - 1840)
• Hugo Hamilton (b. 1953)
• Dermot Healy (b. 1947)
• Aidan Higgins (b. 1927)
• Jennifer Johnston (b. 1930)
• Neil Jordan (b. 1950)
• James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

K - R

• Molly Keane (1904 - 1996) (writing as M.J. Farrell )
• Charles Kickham (1828 - 1882)
• Colum McCann (b. 1965)
• John McGahern (b. 1934)
• Brinsley MacNamara (1890 - 1963 ) (real name John Weldon, see Valley of the Squinting Windows)
• Charles Robert Maturin (1782 - 1824)
• Brian Moore (1921 - 1999)
• George Moore (1852 - 1933)
• Lady Morgan (Sidney Owenson) (1776? - 1859)
• Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
• Edna O'Brien (b. 1932?)
• Liam O'Flaherty (1896 - 1984)
• Brian O'Nolan (1912 - 1966) (writing as Flann O'Brien; journalistic pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen)
• Sean O'Reilly (b. 1969)
• Glenn Patterson (b. 1961)
• Tom Phelan (b. 1940)
• James Plunkett (1920 - 2003)
• Keith Ridgway (b. 1965)
• Frank Ronan (b. 1963)

S - Z

• Somerville and Ross (otherwise Edith Somerville (1858 - 1949 and Violet Florence Martin (1862 - 1915 )
• Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
• Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912)
• Francis Stuart (1902 - 2000)
• Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
• Colm Tóibín (b. 1955)

See also

• Irish fiction
• Irish literature
• List of Irish people
• List of Irish poets
• List of Irish dramatists
• List of Irish short story writers