| BEHAN | Surname of the Irish author and playwright whose works include The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy (5) |
| JOYCE | Surname of the Irish writer famous for Finnegan's Wake, Ulysses, etc. (5) |
| BRENDAN | Irish writer whose plays include The Quare Fellow (7,5) |
| BOYNE | Name the Irish author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas? (5) |
| OSCAR | - Wilde, Irish author and playwright (5) |
| LEFT | Autobiography of Christy Brown, the Irish author who suffered cerebral palsy, My ... Foot |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish author and playwright who only wrote one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (5,5) |
| BURNETT | Frances Hodgson ---, British-American author and playwright whose works include The Secret Garden (7) |
| EECUMMINGS | American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright whose books include Eimi and ViVa |
| GELDOF | Surname of the Irish coorganiser of the 1985 Live Aid concert (6) |
| SCANLON | Surname of the Irish TV presenter who has been a reporter for The One Show and appeared on Strictly in 2023 (7) |
| SWIFT | Anglo-Irish author and clergyman who wrote about Lilliput, Brobdingnag and the Land of the Houyhnhnms in his satire Gulliver's Travels (5) |
| WILDE | Irish poet and playwright whose works include Salome (5,5) |
| FANNY | 19th-century English stage actress and playwright whose works include Francis the First (5,6) |
| BROWN | Christy _, Irish writer and painter whose 1954 autobiography My Left Foot was adapted for a 1989 film (5) |
| KEYES | Marian, Irish author and radio presenter born in 1963 (5) |
| ELTON | Ben ___, comedian, author and playwright (5) |
| EDGAR | Crime writer and playwright, c-ocreator of King Kong ,_ Wallace (5) |
| YEAST | Final upset for Irish writer and fermenter (5) |
| YEATS | Irish writer and youth leader get food (5) |
