Welcome to the Monaco-Ireland Arts Society website.  Our aim is to promote Irish literature and the arts by various means, such as public readings, stage presentations, lectures and friendly get togethers, and even musical evenings for the enjoyment and entertainment of all those interested, not only in the works of our great writers and artists, but also in Irish folklore.

For a comparatively small country, Ireland has made a disproportionate contribution to world literature in both the Irish and English languages.  The island's most widely-known literary works are those of James Joyce, Brian Friel, Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde. 

Let us not forget that Ireland also boasts four Nobel Prize winners for literature:

• W B Yeats
• George Bernard Shaw
• Samuel Beckett
• and more recently, Seamus Heaney