George Moore

George Augustus Moore (February 24, 1852 – January 21, 1933) is an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist.

Moore comes from a Roman Catholic landed family who lives at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo

He originally wants to be a painter, and studies art in Paris during the 1870s.

There, he befriends many of the leading French artists and writers of the day.

As a naturalistic writer, he is among the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and is particularly influenced by the works of Émile Zola.

His writings influenc James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann, and, although Moore's work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature, he is as often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist.

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