Ireland has made a huge, diverse and rich contribution to world literature.

Rent a campervan, the budget alternative to motorhomehire and travel the Irish countryside, the landscape that inspired Nobel Prize Literary winners including W B Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney.

Irish Literature in Dublin.

Make your first stop the Dublin Writers Museum in Parnell Square in the North of the city. Exhibits include a huge reserve of books, including rare and first editions and critical works from Joyce, Yeats, Shaw and Pearse. View copies of the milestones in the progress of Irish literature from Gulliver's Travels to Dracula, The Importance of Being Earnest, Ulysses and Waiting for Godot.

Ulysses and Joyce's Dublin.

Get close to one of the best exhibitions at the James Joyce Centre is housed in a beatifully restored Georgian house and includes an exhibition area with computer installations, videos, re-creations of period rooms, and items relating to the life and work of James Joyce.

Born in 1882, James Joyce, the Irish writer and poet is widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses as well as his other major works A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake and Dubliners.

Oscar Wilde, "I have nothing to declare but my genius".

Be sure to visit the monument dedicated to Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Take time to walk round this prestigious area of central Dublin to see fine examples of Dublin's famous Georgian doors.