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James Joyce
1882 – 1941Ulysses reorganised what a novel could attempt.
Ireland·Literature
Emmet Fox
1886 – 1951Filled New York auditoriums in the Depression; his writing shaped early Alcoholics Anonymous.
Ireland·New Thought · Theology
Joseph Murphy
1898 – 1981Recast affirmation as subconscious programming for a postwar readership.
Ireland·New Thought · Psychology
Denis Burkitt
1911 – 1993Linked dietary fibre to Western disease patterns after describing Burkitt's lymphoma in Uganda.
Ireland·Public Health · Nutrition