1 ) george bernard shaw , 2 ) oscar wilde , 3 ) william butler yeats , seminal poet and founder of the irish national theatre , 4 ) the playwright john m. synge , 5 ) the playwright samuel beckett , 6 ) the poet sen o'casey , 7 ) the poet sen faolin , 8 ) , the poet seamus heaney , 9 ) the poet eavan boland , 10 ) the director jim sheridan , and more .