Ireland
boasts the finest writers of all times. Ireland even has 4 winners of
the Nobel Prize for literature (20th century). Writers such as Oscar
Wilde and William Butler Yeats have made major contributions in the
literary world. Visual and graphic arts also have a strong foothold
here. Some of the early associations of art is seen in the carvings
that were found at sites at Newgrange and illuminated manuscripts that
belonged to the medieval period.
