The Writers' Museum is devoted to the works of Irish writers, particularly those from Dublin, who have won no fewer than 4 Nobel prizes (Yeats, Shaw, Beckett and Heaney). Also included are Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries, authors such as Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, who established their reputations in England, those who went to live abroad such as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, and the great names from the 19C, including Yeats, Synge and O'Casey.