Dublin is one of the world's great literary cities. Three Nobel laureates—George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett—were born in the city, and James Joyce, the most famous Irishman never to have won the Nobel, was also a Dubliner. Modern Irish writing, however, begins in Dublin's 18th century heyday. Trinity College produced three of the most prominent writers of the century: dramatist Oliver Goldsmith, philosopher Edmund Burke and satirist Jonathan Swift. Only Swift, however, remained in Dublin: Goldsmith and Burke moved to London as quickly as they could get away, setting a precedent for writers to come! In the 19th century, James Clarence Mangan drank and brawled his way through Dublin, managing to produce some of Ireland's most distinctive poetry; Bram Stoker wrote Dracula and Oscar Wilde spent his youth in the city before he joined the flight to England. Shaw was born in the city in 1856—he left for England too, where he produced Pygmalion, and Joyce (also writing in exile) set Ulysses on a single summer's day in Dublin—June 16, 1904, a date now celebrated in the city as Bloomsday. Beckett went into exile in Paris but some of Ireland's leading lights managed to stay: Yeats, for example, remained in the new Irish Republic until his death in 1939. Today, Irish writing is more popular and vigorous than ever. Such novelists as Colm Toibin, Anne Enright and Roddy Doyle have established international reputations, and they are joined by Ireland's fourth Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. Not all of these writers have made their home in Dublin, but they figure prominently in the city's energetic literary scene and their achievements have added to the rich texture of Dublin's literary life.