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''Main article: [[Culture of Ireland]]''
 
The island of Ireland has produced the [[Book of Kells]], [[Irish traditional music]], and writers such as [[George Berkeley]],[[Jonathan Swift]], [[James Joyce]], [[George Bernard Shaw|George
Bernard Shaw]], [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]], [[Oliver Goldsmith]], [[Oscar Wilde]], [[W.B. Yeats]], [[Samuel Beckett]], [[John Millington Synge]], [[Séan O'Casey]], [[Séamus Heaney]], and others. Shaw, Yeats, Beckett and Heaney are [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Literature]] laureates. Other prominent writers include [[Dermot Bolger]], [[Edna O'Brien]], [[John McGahern]] and [[Colm Tóibín]].
 
[[Ernest Walton]] of [[Trinity College Dublin]] shared the [[1951]] [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for "splitting the atom". [[William Rowan Hamilton]] was a significant mathematician.