The novel in Irish Literature Abstract This paper traces the … changes in the Irish novel in the centuries 18th , 19th, 20th, 21st. Introduction Ireland is an island that was first inhabited between 8000 BC and 7000 BC. By 1200 BC, the Celt settled in Ireland, and they have a long-lasting effect on Irish culture until today. The Celt spoke Q-Celtic, and through the centuries with the blending with the first inhabitant, the language evolved into Irish Gaelic. This language and their culture cause a division between Irish and the rest of Europe. The Celt created beautiful poetry and drew impressive artwork, which still has a significant impact on Irish culture and literature. Irish literature is considered as the oldest literature in Europe after the works of literature of Greek and Latin. Although Irish writing has its own unique national and linguistic characteristics, it has been inevitably intertwined with English literature. Numerous known Irish authors lived, sometimes worked in exile for long periods in England, which caused the sense of instability in the development of the Irish literature as a unique. The history of Ireland of colonization, starvation, mass emigration, fight, rebellion, and civil war provides rich content to its literature. Since the 17th century, the Irish community has been a colonial, independent, and national one altogether. This hybridity raises the issue of endless cultural tension in Irish writing, which has evolved around four concerns: land, religion, nationality, and language. The battle of Kinsale with the defeat of Hugh O’Neil, 2end earl of Tyrone in 1601, turned on the gradual, century-long collapse of Gaelic civilization as the controlling mode of Irish existence. It also marked the hastening of a long process of Protestant British colonization that would dramatically reconstruct the land, the religion, and the language of Ireland. Out of the deep cultural crisis brought on by this process, “Anglo-Irish” writing emerged. The question is: to what extent do the above influence the Irish literature and, therefore, the Irish novel throughout the following centuries. Part one: 18th century novel and before During the 18th century the nature of the Irish society was controversy. The Protestant and English-speaking minority dominated the country after their triumph over Roman Catholic Ireland at the Battles of the Byone and Aughrim (1690-1691); such domination was called the Protestant Ascendancy. The inheritance of the political settlement in Ireland that pursued the battle Augurim had a strongly communal and colonial impact on the writing of this period. Accordingly, 18th century Ireland produced what is called Anglo-Irish literature which can be distinguishable from the English traditional writing. The reason behind the fact that Irish novels have nothing specifically Irish and were written mostly; in terms of content; with an English audience in view is the traveling of Irish writers t.