| EDNAOBRIEN | Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls |
| OBRIEN | Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls, August Is a Wicked Month and The Light of Evening (1'5) |
| EDNA | ___ O'Brien, Irish writer whose novels include The Country Girls (4) |
| DOYLE | Roddy - - -, Irish author whose novels include The Commitments (5) |
| OFLAHERTY | Liam, Irish author whose novels include 1925's The Informer (9) |
| OFARRELL | Northern Irish author whose novels include After You'd Gone, The Hand That First Held Mine and Hamnet (6.8) |
| MAGGIE | Northern Irish author whose novels include After You'd Gone, The Hand That First Held Mine and Hamnet (6,8) |
| MAEVEBINCHY | Irish author whose novels include Circle of Friends |
| BINCHY | Irish author whose novels include Circle of Friends, Evening Class, Minding Frankie and A Week in Winter (6) |
| EDGEWORTH | Anglo-Irish author whose novels include Letters for Literary Ladies, Castle Rackrent and Tales of Fashionable Life (9) |
| CECELIAAHERN | Irish author whose novels include PS, I Love You and Where Rainbows End (7,5) |
| JOYCE | James ---, Irish author whose works include the novel Finnegans Wake (5) |
| BEHAN | Irish writer whose works include the play 'The Quare Fellow' (5) |
| JAMESJOYCE | Irish author whose works include 'Ulysses' (5,5) |
| LYNCH | Irish author whose Prophet Song won the 2023 Booker Prize. (5) |
| BRENDAN | Irish writer whose plays include The Quare Fellow (7,5) |
| NEILL | Actor in films including The Country Girls. The Piano, The Horse Whisperer and Blackbird who also played the part of Thomas Wolsey in The Tudors (5) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer whose only novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| BECKETT | Samuel _, Irish writer whose plays include Endgame and Waiting for Godot (7) |
| ODETS | Group Theatre co-founder and author of Waiting for Lefty whose play The Country Girl was adapted into a film with Grace Kelly (5) |
