List of Irish poets
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Ireland
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or holding Irish citizenship. Poets whose work is in Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
are included.
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- Adomnán (d. 704)
- Æ (George William Russell)George William RussellGeorge William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym Æ , was an Irish nationalist, writer, editor, critic, poet, and painter. He was also a mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy in Dublin, for many years.-Organisor:Russell was born in Lurgan, County Armagh...
(1867–1935) - Gary Allen (born 1964)
- Joseph Allen (born 1964)
- William AllinghamWilliam AllinghamWilliam Allingham was an Irish man of letters and a poet.-Biography:He was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent...
(1824–1889) - Leland BardwellLeland BardwellLeland Bardwell is an Irish poet, novelist and playwright. She was born in India to Irish parents, and moved to Ireland at the age of two.-Life and reputation:...
(born 1922) - Becc mac Lethdergain (fl. 5th century)
- Beccán mac LuigdechBeccán mac LuigdechBeccán mac Luigdech was a 7th-century Irish poet and monk of Iona. He is known for having composed two vernacular poems, Fo réir Choluimb and Tiugraind Beccáin , which were written c. 640 in praise of St Columba, the founder of Iona...
(fl. c. 650?) - Samuel BeckettSamuel BeckettSamuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...
(1906–1989) - Brendan BehanBrendan BehanBrendan Francis Behan was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also an Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army.-Early life:...
(1923–1964) - Gerard BeirneGerard BeirneGerard Beirne is an Irish author currently living in Canada.His novel The Eskimo in the Net was published by Marion Boyars in 2003 and was short-listed for the 2004 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award...
(born 1962) - Blathmac mac Cú BrettanBlathmac mac Cú BrettanBlathmac mac Con Brettan was an Irish fíle and monk whose floruit was around 760.Blathmac was the son of Cú Brettan mac Congussa , seemingly a king of the Airthir, one of the Airgíalla kingdoms, situated in modern-day County Monaghan. His brother Donn Bó was killed in battle in 759...
(fl. c. 750) - Eavan BolandEavan Boland-Biography:Boland's father, Frederick Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted post-expressionist painter. She was born in Dublin in 1944. At the age of six, Boland's father was appointed Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom; the family followed him to London,...
(born 1944) - Dermot BolgerDermot BolgerDermot Bolger is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet born in Finglas, a suburb of Dublin.His work is often concerned with the articulation of the experiences of working-class characters who, for various reasons, feel alienated from society. Bolger questions the relevance of traditional...
(born 1959) - Pat BoranPat BoranPat Boran is an Irish poet. Born in Portlaoise, Boran has lived in Dublin for a number of years. He is the publisher of the Dedalus Press which specialises in contemporary poetry from Ireland, and international poetry in English-language translation, and was until 2007 Programme Director of the...
(born 1963) - Samuel BoyseSamuel BoyseSamuel Boyse was an Irish poet and writer who worked for Sir Robert Walpole and whose religious verses in particular were prized and reprinted in his time.-Life:...
(1709–1749) - Rory BrennanRory BrennanRory Brennan is an Irish poet, born in Westport, County Mayo.-Life:Rory Brennan lectures in Dublin City University. He was previously a presenter and programme maker on RTÉ Radio. He is ex-director of Poetry Ireland, He has educated at Trinity College Dublin and NUI Maynooth. He has lived in...
(born 1945) - Bri mac Bairchid (fl. 5th century)
- Broccan (fl. 7th century)
- Frances BrowneFrances BrowneFrances Browne was an Irish poet and novelist, best remembered for her collection of short stories for children: Granny's Wonderful Chair.-Early life:...
(1816–1887) - Moya CannonMoya CannonMoya Cannon is an Irish author.Cannon was born in 1956 in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal. She studied History and Politics at University College Dublin, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge....
(born 1956) - Ciarán CarsonCiaran CarsonCiaran Gerard Carson is a Belfast, Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist.-Early years:Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family...
(born 1948) - Philip Casey (born 1950)
- Oengus Celi De (fl. c. 800)
- Patrick ChapmanPatrick ChapmanPatrick Chapman is an Irish poet, writer and screenwriter, born in 1968. His poetry collections include:* Jazztown, * The New Pornography Patrick Chapman is an Irish poet, writer and screenwriter, born in 1968. His poetry collections include:* Jazztown, (Raven Arts Press, 1991)* The New Pornography...
(born 1968) - Austin ClarkeAustin Clarke (poet)thumb|300px|Austin Clarke Bridge in [[Templeogue]]Austin Clarke was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs...
(1896–1974) - Brendan ClearyBrendan ClearyBrendan Cleary is a poet who was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland but lives in England.-Early years:Cleary attended Carrickfergus Grammar School in Northern Ireland. He moved from Northern Ireland in 1977 to Middlesbrough, a large town in northeast England, in order to attend Teesside...
(born 1958) - Brian CoffeyBrian CoffeyBrian Coffey was an Irish poet and publisher. His work was informed by his Catholicism and by his background in science and philosophy, and his connection to surrealism. For these reasons, he is seen as being closer to an intellectual European Catholic tradition than to mainstream Irish Catholic...
(1905–1995) - Colmán mac Lénéni (d. 604)
- Padraic ColumPadraic ColumPadraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival.-Early life:...
(1881–1972) - Cuirithir of Connacht (fl. 7th century)
- John CunninghamJohn Cunningham (poet and dramatist)John Cunningham , whose parents came from Scotland, was an Irish pastoral poet and dramatist, who gained in his time some popularity. He started to write in the age of twelve, and at the age of 17 he wrote the play Love in a Mist...
(1729–1773) - Pádraig J. DalyPádraig J. DalyPádraig J. Daly is a contemporary Irish poet.Pádraig J. Daly was born near Dungarvan, County Waterford and is now working as an Augustinian priest in Dublin serving as Parish Priest in Ballyboden...
(born 1943) - Thomas DavisThomas Osborne Davis (Irish politician)Thomas Osborne Davis was a revolutionary Irish writer who was the chief organizer and poet of the Young Ireland movement.-Early life:...
(1814–1845) - Cecil Day-LewisCecil Day-LewisCecil Day-Lewis CBE was an Irish poet and the Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake...
(1904–1972) - Celia de FréineCelia de FréineCelia de Fréine is a poet, playwright, screenwriter and librettist who writes in Irish and English.-Background:Celia de Fréine was born in Newtownards, County Down. At an early age she moved with her family to Dublin, maintaining strong links with her extended family in the North. she was...
(born 1948) - Greg DelantyGreg DelantyGreg Delanty is an Irish poet. He is artist-in-residence at St. Michael's College, and current President of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers....
(born 1958) - Denis DevlinDenis DevlinDenis Devlin was, along with Samuel Beckett and Brian Coffey, one of the generation of Irish modernist poets to emerge at the end of the 1920s. He was also a career diplomat.-Early life and studies:...
(1908–1959) - John DillonJohn DillonJohn Dillon was an Irish land reform agitator from Dublin, an Irish Home Rule activist, a nationalist politician, a Member of Parliament for over 35 years, and the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party....
(1816–1866) - Des Donnelly (born 1955)
- Theo DorganTheo DorganTheo Dorgan is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He currently lives in Dublin.- Career :Dorgan's poetry collections are The Ordinary House of Love ; Rosa Mundi; and Sappho’s Daughter...
(born 1953) - Gerard DonovanGerard DonovanGerard Donovan is an acclaimed Irish-born novelist, photographer and poet currently living in Plymouth, England, working as a lecturer at the University of Plymouth....
(born ?) - Steve Downes (born 1973)
- William DrennanWilliam DrennanWilliam Drennan ,a physician, poet, educationalist and political radical, was one of the chief architects of the Society of United Irishmen...
(d. 1820) - Dubtach moccu Lugair (fl. 5th century)
- Charles Gavan DuffyCharles Gavan DuffyAdditional Reading*, Allen & Unwin, 1973.*John Mitchel, A Cause Too Many, Aidan Hegarty, Camlane Press.*Thomas Davis, The Thinker and Teacher, Arthur Griffith, M.H. Gill & Son 1922....
(1816–1903) - Seán DunneSeán Dunne (poet)- Career :Dunne edited several anthologies, beginning with "The Poets of Munster" and finishing with the "Ireland Anthology" which was completed posthumously by George O'Brien and his partner Trish Edelstein. He released 3 collections of poems...
(1956–1995) - Lord Dunsany (1878–1957)
- Paul DurcanPaul DurcanPaul Durcan is a contemporary Irish poet.-Early life:Durcan grew up in Dublin and in Turlough, County Mayo. His father, John, was a barrister and circuit court judge; father and son had a difficult and formal relationship. Durcan enjoyed a warmer and more natural relationship with his mother,...
(1944)
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- John EnnisJohn Ennis (poet)-Life:He is head of School of Humanities at Waterford Institute of Technology, and lives in Waterford. He won the Listowel Open Poetry Competition eleven times, he won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1975, and the Irish American Cultural Institute Award in 1996....
- Gabriel Fitzmaurice (born 1952)
- Flann MainistrechFlann MainistrechFlann Mainistrech was an Irish poet and historian.Flann was the son Echthigern mac Óengusso, who had been lector at the monastery of Monasterboice , in Irish Mainistir Buite, whence Flann's byname, meaning "of Monasterboice"...
(d. 1056) - Flannacan mac Cellaig, King of Brega (d. 896)
- Patrick GalvinPatrick GalvinPatrick Galvin was an Irish poet, singer, playwright, and prose and screen writer born in Cork's inner city.-Biography:Galvin was born in Cork in 1927 at a time of great political transition in Ireland...
(born 1927) - Monk GibbonMonk GibbonWilliam Monk Gibbon was an Irish poet and prolific author, known as "The Grand Old Man of Irish Letters". His collection of over twenty volumes of poetry, autobiography, travel and criticism are kept at Queen's University Belfast. He also wrote many published novels, and has been characterised as...
(1896–1987) - Oliver St. John GogartyOliver St. John GogartyOliver Joseph St John Gogarty was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist, who served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses....
(1878–1957) - Oliver GoldsmithOliver GoldsmithOliver Goldsmith was an Irish writer, poet and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield , his pastoral poem The Deserted Village , and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer...
(1730? – 1774) - Mark GranierMark GranierMark Granier born in London, England, is an Irish poet and photographer based in Dublin, Ireland.- Biography :Mark Granier was born in London in 1957...
(born 1957) - Patrick GreaneyPatrick GreaneyPatrick Greaney, Gaelic-Irish poet, fl. 18th century.Greaney was a poet from Ballintleva, Tuam, and worked for Ulick Jennings of Ironpool in the parish of Kilconly, who was a member of the local gentry. Ulick's son was John Jennings...
(flourished 18th century) - Gerald GriffinGerald GriffinGerald Griffin was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright.-Biography:He was born in Limerick, Ireland, the son of a brewer. He went to London in 1823 and became a reporter for one of the daily papers, and later turned to writing fiction...
(1803–1840) - Stephen Gwynn (1864–1950)
- Kerry Hardy (born 1951)
- Michael Hartnett (1944–1999)
- Randolph HealyRandolph HealyRandolph Healy is an Irish poet and publisher.Healy was born in Scotland and moved to Dublin at the age of 18 months. After leaving school at the age of 14 to work in a number of jobs, he returned to full-time education and graduated in mathematical sciences from Trinity College, Dublin. He now...
(born 1956) - Seamus HeaneySeamus HeaneySeamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
(born 1939) - F. R. HigginsF. R. HigginsFrederick Robert Higgins was an Irish poet and theatre director.-Early years:Higgins was born on the west coast of Ireland in Foxford, which is located in County Mayo...
(1896–1941) - Kevin Higgins (born 1967)
- Rita Ann HigginsRita Ann Higgins-Life:A native of Ballybrit, Galway, Higgins was one of thirteen children in a working-class household. She married in 1973 but following the birth of her second child in 1977, contracted Tuberculosis, forcing her to spend an extended period in a sanatorium,...
(born 1955) - Pearse HutchinsonPearse HutchinsonPearse Hutchinson is an Irish poet, broadcaster and translator.-Childhood and education:Pearse Hutchinson was born in Glasgow. His father, Harry Hutchinson, a Scottish printer whose own father had left Dublin to find work in Scotland, was Sinn Féin treasurer in Glasgow and was interned in Frongoch...
(born 1927) - Douglas HydeDouglas HydeDouglas Hyde , known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn , was an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945...
(1860–1949) - Irard mac Coisse (fl. pre-980)
- Valentin IremongerValentin IremongerValentin Iremonger was an Irish diplomat and poet.He was born in Dublin and joined the diplomatic service. He served as Irish Ambassador to Sweden, Norway, Finland, India and Luxembourg....
(1918–1991) - John JordanJohn Jordan (poet)John Jordan was an Irish poet born in Dublin on 8 April 1930. He was educated at Synge Street CBS, University College, Dublin and Pembroke College, Oxford. In his teens he acted on the stage of the Gate Theatre, Dublin, before winning a Scholarship in English and French to Oxford University from...
(1930–1988) - James JoyceJames JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
(1882–1941) - Trevor JoyceTrevor JoyceTrevor Joyce is an Irish poet, born in Dublin.He co-founded New Writers' Press in Dublin in 1967 and was a founding editor of NWP's The Lace Curtain; A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism in 1968....
(born 1947) - Patrick KavanaghPatrick KavanaghPatrick Kavanagh was an Irish poet and novelist. Regarded as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century, his best known works include the novel Tarry Flynn and the poems Raglan Road and The Great Hunger...
(1904–1967) - Charles KickhamCharles KickhamCharles Joseph Kickham was an Irish revolutionary, novelist, poet, journalist and one of the most prominent members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.-Early life:...
(d. 1882) - Thomas KinsellaThomas KinsellaThomas Kinsella is an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.-Early life and work:Kinsella was born in Lucan, County Dublin. He spent much of his childhood with relatives in rural Ireland. He was educated in the Irish language at the Model School, Inchicore and the O'Connell Christian...
(born 1928) - Anatoly KudryavitskyAnatoly KudryavitskyAnthony Kudryavitsky born in Moscow on 17 August 1954, better known by his pen name Anatoly Kudryavitsky , is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet and literary translator.-Biography:...
(born 1954) - Emily LawlessEmily LawlessEmily Lawless was an Irish novelist and poet from County Kildare.-Biography :She was born at Lyons House below Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare. Her grandfather was Valentine Lawless, a member of the United Irishmen and son of a convert from Catholicism to the Church of Ireland. Her father...
(1845–1913) - Francis LedwidgeFrancis LedwidgeFrancis Edward Ledwidge was an Irish war poet from County Meath. Sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I.-Early life:...
(1887–1917) - C. S. LewisC. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
(1899–1963) - Liadan of Corcu Duibhne (fl. 7th century)
- James LiddyJames LiddyJames Liddy , was an Irish poet, born in Dublin, Ireland. He is best known for his collections In A Blue Smoke and Blue Mountain . The first volume of Liddy's memoir, The Doctor's House: An Autobiography, was published in 2004.-Bibliography:* Irish Poetry of Faith and Doubt:The Cold Heaven, p.187,...
- Michael LongleyMichael LongleyMichael Longley, CBE is a Northern Irish poet from Belfast.-Life and career:Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus...
(born 1939) - Luccreth moccu ChiaraLuccreth moccu ChiaraLuccreth moccu Chíara was a poet from County Kerry, Ireland who wrote in archaic Old Irish. Moccu is an archaic form marking affiliation to an ancestral population group or gens, in this case the Cíarraige...
(fl. c. 600) - Richard Mc Sweeney (born 1955)
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- Denis Florence MacCarthyDenis Florence MacCarthyDenis Florence MacCarthy was an Irish poet, translator, and biographer, born in Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin.-Life:McCarthy was born in Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin, on 26 May 1817, and educated there and at Maynooth. He acquired an intimate knowledge of Spanish from a learned priest, who had...
(1817–1868) - Donagh MacDonaghDonagh MacDonaghDonagh MacDonagh was an Irish writer, judge, presenter, broadcaster, and playwright.-His private life:He was born in Dublin and was still a young child when his father Thomas MacDonagh, an Irish nationalist and poet, was executed in 1916.Tragedy struck again when his mother died of a heart attack...
(1912–1968) - Thomas MacDonaghThomas MacDonaghThomas MacDonagh was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.-Early life:MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary...
(1878–1916) - Patrick MacDonoghPatrick MacDonoghPatrick MacDonogh was an Irish poet. He was born in Dublin and educated at Avoca School and Trinity College, Dublin. MacDonogh worked as a teacher and commercial artist before joining the staff of Arthur Guinness Son & Co., where he later held a senior executive post.He published five books of...
(1902–1961) - Seán MacFalls (born 1957)
- Patrick MacGillPatrick MacGillPatrick MacGill was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing.MacGill was born in Glenties, County Donegal...
(1889–1960) - Thomas MacGreevyThomas MacGreevyThomas MacGreevy was a pivotal figure in the history of Irish literary modernism. A poet, he was also director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1950 to 1963 and served on the first Irish Arts Council .-Early life:MacGreevy was born in County Kerry, the son of a policeman and a primary...
(1893–1967) - Louis MacNeiceLouis MacNeiceFrederick Louis MacNeice CBE was an Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis; nicknamed "MacSpaunday" as a group — a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco...
(1907–1963) - Oengus mac Oengoba mac Oiblean (fl. c. 800)
- Hugh McFaddenHugh McFaddenHugh McFadden is an Irish poet, literary editor, executor and freelance journalist.-Early life:McFadden was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, where he lived briefly, and then moved to County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, before moving to Dublin...
(born 1942) - Medbh McGuckianMedbh McGuckianMedbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Biography:She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast...
(born 1950) - Niall McGrath (born 1966)
- Gerard McKeownGerard McKeownGerard McKeown is a writer from Ballymena, Northern Ireland. A graduate of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, he is best known for his performance poetry, which draws as much from disciplines such as stand up comedy and bardic story telling as it does poetry.He has performed as a support act for other...
(born 1980) - Nigel McLoughlinNigel McLoughlinNigel McLoughlin . He is a poet, editor and teacher. He lives in Gloucestershire, England.- Education :He received his early education at St. Michael's College, Enniskillen. He holds a BA in English from the University of London and a Diploma in Irish Language from the University of Ulster...
(born 1968) - William Brendan McPhillips (1937–2008)
- Máire Mhac an tSaoiMáire Mhac an tSaoi-Background:Mhac an tSaoi was born as Máire MacEntee in Dublin in 1922. Her father, Seán MacEntee, a native of Belfast, was a founding member of Fianna Fáil, a long-serving TD and Tánaiste in the Dáil and a participant in the Easter Rising of 1916. Her mother, County Tipperary-born Margaret Browne...
(born 1922) - Mael Ruain of Tallaght (d. pre-800)
- Derek Mahon (born 1941)
- James Clarence ManganJames Clarence ManganJames Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan was an Irish poet.-Early life:Mangan was the son of a former hedge school teacher who took over a grocery business and eventually became bankrupt....
(1803–1849) - Marcus of Ratisbon (fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
1149) - Paula MeehanPaula MeehanPaula Meehan is an Irish poet and playwright. Born in Dublin in 1955, Meehan studied at Trinity College, Dublin,and at Eastern Washington University.-Biography:...
(born 1955) - Brian MerrimanBrian MerrimanBrian Merriman or in Irish Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre was an Irish language poet and teacher. His single surviving work of substance, the 1000-line long Cúirt An Mheán Oíche is widely regarded as the greatest comic poem in the history of Irish literature.-Merriman's life:Merriman appears to have...
(1747–1805) - Alice MilliganAlice MilliganAlice Milligan was an Irish nationalist poet and writer, active in the Gaelic League.-Life:She was born and raised a Protestant in Gortmore, near Omagh, County Tyrone. Milligan's father was the writer Seaton Milligan, antiquary and member of the RIA...
(1865–1953) - The Monk of Reichenau (fl. early 9th century)
- John MontagueJohn Montague (poet)John Montague is an Irish poet. He was born in New York and brought up in Tyrone. He has published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and two volumes of memoir. He is one of the best known Irish contemporary poets...
(born 1929) - Thomas MooreThomas MooreThomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...
(1779–1852) - Paul MuldoonPaul MuldoonPaul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...
(born 1951) - Nuala Ní ChonchúirNuala Ní Chonchúir-Biography:Born in Dublin in 1970, Nuala Ní Chonchúir is a full-time fiction writer and poet, living in County Galway. She has published two collections of short fiction and two poetry collections - one in an anthology. Nuala holds a BA in Irish from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in...
(born 1970) - Eiléan Ní ChuilleanáinEiléan Ní ChuilleanáinEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an Irish poet born in Cork .-Life:Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin. She was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford. She lives in Dublin with her husband Macdara Woods, and they have one...
(born 1942) - Nuala Ní DhomhnaillNuala Ní DhomhnaillNuala Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish poet.Born in Lancashire, England in 1952, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary. Her uncle is Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta of An Daingean, the leading authority alive on...
(born 1952) - Dáibhí Ó BruadairDáibhí Ó BruadairDáibhí Ó Bruadair was one of the most significant Irish language poets of the 17th century. He lived through a momentous time in Irish history and his work serves as testimony to the death of the old Irish cultural and political order and the decline in respect for the once honoured and feared...
(David O Bruadair) (1625–1698) - Máirtín Ó DireáinMáirtín Ó DireáinMáirtín Ó Direáin born in Sruthán on Inismór in the Aran Islands was an Irish language poet.The son of a small-farmer, Máirtín Ó Direáin spoke only Irish until his mid-teens. He worked as a civil servant from 1928 until 1975...
(1910–1988) - Ciaran O'Driscoll (born 1943)
- Dennis O'DriscollDennis O'DriscollDennis O’Driscoll is an Irish poet, essayist, critic, and editor born in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Although not widely recognized in the United States, he is considered one of the best European poets of his time. In all, he has written eight books of poetry, two chapbooks, and a...
(born 1954) - Cinaed Ó hArtucain (d. 975)
- Mary Devenport O'NeillMary Devenport O'NeillMary Devenport O'Neill was an Irish poet and dramatist and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats, George Russell,and Austin Clarke....
(1879–1967) - Antoine Ó RaifteiriAntoine Ó RaifteiriAntoine Ó Raifteiri was an Irish language poet who is often called the last of the wandering bards.-Biography:...
(Anthony Raftery) (1784–1835) - Aogán Ó RathailleAogán Ó RathailleAodhagán Ó Rathaille, also spelt Aogán Ó Rathaille or Anglicised as Egan O'Rahilly , was an Irish language poet. He is credited with creating the first fully developed Aisling poem.-Early life:...
(1675–1729) - Seán Ó RíordáinSeán Ó Ríordáin-Life:He was born in Baile Mhúirne, County Cork, the eldest of three children of Seán Ó Ríordáin of Baile Mhúirne and Mairéad Ní Loineacháin of Cúil Ealta....
(1916–1977) - Flann file Ó Ronan/Flann na Marb (fl. 1022)
- Cathal Ó SearcaighCathal Ó SearcaighCathal Ó Searcaigh is an Irish poet who writes in the Irish language .Ó Searcaigh was born in Gort a' Choirce, a town in the Gaeltacht region of Donegal, and lives at the foot of Mount Errigal...
(born 1956) - Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin/Owen Roe O'Sullivan (1748–1782)
- Seumas O'Sullivan (1879–1958)
- Eoghan Ó TuairiscEoghan Ó TuairiscEoghan Ó Tuairisc was an Irish poet and writer.-Life:He was a native of Ballinasloe, County Galway and was educated at Garbally College. His entered St. Patrick’s Teacher Training College, Drumcondra in 1939, graduating with a Diploma in Education in 1945...
(Eugene Watters) (1919–1982) - Frank OrmsbyFrank OrmsbyFrancis Arthur Ormsby is a Northern Irish poet.He was educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen and Queen's University Belfast. He was editor of The Honest Ulsterman from 1969 to 1989, and has also edited the Poetry Ireland Review. Since 1976 he has been Head of English at the Royal Belfast...
(born 1947) - Patrick PearsePatrick PearsePatrick Henry Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916...
(Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais) (1879–1916) - Tom PaulinTom PaulinThomas Neilson Paulin is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he is the GM Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.- Life and work :...
(born 1949) - Joseph Plunkett (1887–1916)
Q–Z
- Anthony Raferty (c.1784–1834)
- George ReaveyGeorge ReaveyGeorge Reavey was a Russian-born Irish surrealist poet, publisher, translator and art collector. He was also Samuel Beckett's first literary agent. In addition to his own poetry, Reavey's translations and critical prose helped introduce 20th century Russian poetry to an English-speaking audience...
(1907–1976) - Maurice RiordanMaurice RiordanMaurice Riordan is an Irish poet, translator, and editor. Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, Riordan has published three collections of poetry: A Word from the Loki , a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S...
(born 1953) - Lennox RobinsonLennox RobinsonEsmé Stuart Lennox Robinson was an Irish dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre....
(1886–1958) - Gabriel RosenstockGabriel RosenstockGabriel Rosenstock is an Irish poet, haiku writer, translator and author. He was born in Kilfinane, County Limerick in 1949. He currently resides in Dublin.-Biography:...
(born 1949) - Adam RuddenAdam RuddenAdam Rudden is a Dublin-based Irish Poet. He was born in May 1983. He has been published widely in poetry periodicals. These include: Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Electric Acorn, Jacobyte Poetry, Agenda and Horizons....
(born 1983) - Blanaid SalkeldBlanaid SalkeldBlanaid Salkeld was an Irish poet, dramatist, and actor, whose well-known literary salon was attended by, among others, Patrick Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien...
(1880–1959) - Maurice ScullyMaurice ScullyMaurice Scully is an Irish poet who works in the modernist tradition. Scully was born in Dublin & educated at Trinity College.Scully's books include Love Poems & Others , 5 Freedoms of Movement , Steps , Livelihood , Sonata, , Tig and Humming...
(born 1952) - Eileen ShanahanEileen Shanahan (Irish poet)Eileen Shanahan was one of the small number of Irish women poets. Her best-known poem, The Three Children , was included in the Oxford Book of Irish Verse...
(1901–1979) - James Simmons (1933–2001)
- Peter SirrPeter SirrPeter Sirr is an Irish poet, born in Waterford, Ireland. He lives in Dublin where he works as a freelance writer and translator.-Life:...
(born 1960) - Michael SmithMichael Smith (poet)Michael Smith is an Irish poet, author and translator.A member of Aosdána, the Irish National Academy of Artists, Michael Smith was the first Writer in-Residence to be appointed by University College, Dublin and is an Honorary Fellow of UCD. He is a poet who has given a lifetime of service to the...
(born 1942) - Geoffrey SquiresGeoffrey SquiresGeoffrey Squires is an Irish poet who works in what might loosely be termed the modernist tradition.-Early life:While born in Derry, he grew up in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland...
(born 1942) - James StephensJames Stephens (author)James Stephens was an Irish novelist and poet.James Stephens wrote many retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. His retellings are marked by a rare combination of humor and lyricism...
(1880–1950) - Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
(1667–1745) - John Millington SyngeSyngeSynge is the Irish writer John Millington Synge .Synge may also refer to:* Richard Laurence Millington Synge , British biochemist* John Lighton Synge , Irish mathematician and physicist...
(1871-1909) - Senchán TorpéistSenchán TorpéistSenchán Torpéist, Gaelic-Irish poet of Ireland, -Background:Seanchan Torpest was the Chief Poet of Connacht in 598 AD when he succeeded Dallán Forgaill as Chief Ollam of Ireland...
(fl. c. 580 – c.650) - Katharine TynanKatharine TynanKatharine Tynan was an Irish-born writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1898 to the writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson...
(1861–1931) - Orthanach ua Coellamae (fl. late 8th century)
- Uallach ni Muimnechaid (d. c. 934)
- Catherine WalshCatherine Walsh (poet)Catherine Walsh is an Irish poet. She was born in Dublin, and grew up there and in rural Wexford. She is the founder and co-editor of hardPressed Poetry with Billy Mills...
(born 1964) - Jane WildeJane WildeJane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde was an Irish poet under the pen name "Speranza" and supporter of the nationalist movement; had a special interest on Irish Fairy Tales, which she helped to gather...
(1821–1896) - Oscar WildeOscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
(1845–1900) - James WillsJames WillsJames Wills, , was an Irish writer and poet.Wills was born in County Roscommon, the younger son of a landowner. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied law in the Middle Temple, London...
(1790–1868) - Macdara WoodsMacdara WoodsMacdara Woods is an Irish poet born in Dublin.-Life:Macdara Woods is married to the poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, they have an adult son, Niall, a musician. Woods currently lives in Dublin and Umbria...
(born 1942) - W. B. Yeats (1865–1939)
- Augustus YoungAugustus YoungFor the U.S. Representative from Vermont, see Augustus Young .Augustus Young is an Irish poet.-Biography:Young worked in London as an epidemiologist and adviser to health authorities, and now lives in France...
(born 1943)
See also
- Irish poetryIrish poetryThe history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
- Irish literatureIrish literatureFor a comparatively small island, Ireland has made a disproportionately large contribution to world literature. Irish literature encompasses the Irish and English languages.-The beginning of writing in Irish:...
- List of Irish dramatists
- List of Irish historians
- List of Irish novelists
- List of Irish short story writers
- List of poets
External links
- http://bill.celt.dias.ie/vol4/browseatsources.php?letter=A#ATS7714