As a Scot, I can sometimes feel envious of our amazing Celtic neighbor and its outsize contribution to modern literature. Even if so much of that record was because, as W.H. Auden wrote of Yeats, “mad Ireland hurt him into poetry,” Ireland did at least end up with poetry along with its madness – and much more.

This extensively researched infographic comes courtesy of Irish schools specialist book chain BuyBooks.ie, put together by the UK’s NeoMam Studios. And even if it originated on the wrong side of the Irish Sea, who could shut their eyes to the pride of Erin …

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