<Li> Kay Ryan - poet and academic; Poet Laureate of the United States </Li> <Li> Michael Ryan - poet; awarded the 1990 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for God Hunger </Li> <Li> John Patrick Shanley - playwright and screenwriter; winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Doubt: A Parable </Li> <Li> Mickey Spillane - crime novelist; author of bestselling Mike Hammer detective novels </Li>

Presidents of the united states with irish roots