Some literary Irish rogues I list here with due respect to their influence. You’ll find below a link to some of their most notable and freely available rogue works.
Jonathan Swift
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Rogue Rage
Railed against the immoralities of his time with masterful satire.
Rogue Work
Samuel Beckett
You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
Rogue Rage
Turned the conventions of drama upside down with theatre of the absurd works like “Waiting for Godot”.
Rogue Work
Lady Gregory
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above,
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor.
Rogue Rage
Disregarded her privileged background to fight for the recognition of Irish culture and folklore.
Rogue Work
J.M. Synge
May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy devils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave.
Rogue Rage
Caused riots with his depiction of the Irish peasanty in “The Playboy of the Western World”.
Rogue Work
The Playboy of the Western World
Edna O’Brien
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
Rogue Rage
Scandalised Irish conservatives and the Catholic Church with books like “The Country Girls”.
Rogue Work
Sean O’Casey
The whole world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Rogue Rage
A republican and communist blacklisted for his active socialism.
Rogue Work
James Joyce
When a man is born…there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets
Rogue Rage
Pioneered high modernist literature with Ulysses and befuddled the world with Finnegan’s Wake.