The Irish people are mainly of Celtic origin, with the country's only significant sized minority having descended from the Anglo-Normans. English is the common language, but Irish (Gaelic) also is an official language and is taught in the schools.
A national literature in Irish is reemerging. Anglo-Irish writers, including Swift, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Burke, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Samuel Beckett, have made a major contribution to world literature over the past 300 years.
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