This is a list of playwrights either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. Playwrights whose work is in Irish are included.

A brief outline of the history of Irish theatre is also available.

A - D

• John Banim
• Sebastian Barry
• Samuel Beckett
• Brendan Behan
• Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)
• Paul Vincent Carroll
• Austin Clarke
• Padraic Colum
• William Congreve
• Louis D'Alton
• Anne Devlin

E - J

• St John Ervine
• Brian Friel
• Oliver Goldsmith
• Lady Gregory
• Gerald Griffin
• Denis Johnston
• James Joyce

K - P

• John B. Keane
• Thomas Kilroy
• Jerome Kilty
• Hugh Leonard
• Walter Macken
• Micheál MacLiammoir
• Edward Martyn
• John McCann
• Frank McGuinness
• Conor McPherson
• M. J. Molloy
• George Moore
• John Murphy
• Tom Murphy
• T. C. Murray
• Sean O'Casey
• Joseph O'Connor
• Mary Devenport O'Neill

Q - Z

• Lennox Robinson
• Billy Roche
• George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
• George Shiels (1881-1949)
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• John Millington Synge
• Joseph Tomelty
• Oscar Wilde (1845-1900)
• W.B. Yeats

See also

• Irish literature
• List of Irish poets
• List of Irish novelists
• List of Irish short story writers