Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet.... or holding Irish citizenship. Poets whose work is in Irish
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Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet.... or holding Irish citizenship. Poets whose work is in Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic languages of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.... are included.
Not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell .George William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym ? , was an Irish people Irish Nationalism, writer, editor, critic, poet, and painter.... (1867 – 1935)
Gary Allen was an American conservative journalist.As a student, he was majoring in history at Stanford University and studied at California State University, Long Beach.... (born 1964)
Joseph Allen may refer to:* Joseph Allen , member of the eleventh United States Congress* Joseph Allen , Bishop of Bristol and Bishop of Ely... (born 1964)
William Allingham was an Ireland man of letters and poet.He was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent.... (1824 – 1889)
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish people writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalism.... (1906 – 1989)
Brendan Francis Behan was an Irish literature poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also a committed Irish Republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army .... (1923 – 1964)
Gerard Beirne is an Irish people author currently resident in Canada .His novel The Eskimo in the Net http://www.marionboyars.co.uk/AUTHORS/Gerard%20Beirne.html was short-listed for the 2004 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.... (born 1962)
Blathmac mac C? Brettan, Irish F?le , fl. 760.Believed to have being born in southern Airg?alla , Blathmac was educated in a monastic school and went on to become a monk, strongly influenced by the C?li D? movement.... (fl. c. 750)
Dermot 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.... (born 1959)
Pat Boran is an Irish poetry 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 annual Dublin Writers Festival.... (born 1963)
Frances Browne was an Irish poet and novelist, best remembered for her collection of short stories for children: Granny's Wonderful Chair.... (1816 – 1887)
Patrick Chapman is an Irish poet, author and scriptwriter born in 1968. He lives in Dublin. His poetry collections are Jazztown, , The New Pornography, , Breaking Hearts And Traffic Lights, and A Shopping Mall on Mars, .... (born 1968)
Austin Clarke was one of the leading Irish poetry of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote Play , novels and memoirs. Clarke's main contribution to Irish poetry was the rigour with which he used technical means borrowed from classical Irish language poetry when writing in English.... (1896 – 1974)
Brian Coffey was an Ireland poet and publisher. His work was informed by his Catholicism and by his background in science and philosophy, and his connection to surrealism.... (1905 – 1995)
Colm?n mac L?n?ni, 530-c. 606, religious poet.Believed to be born in Desmond , Colm?n is regarded as the founded of Cluain Uama . His surviving verses date from the period 565-604, and are among the earliest examples of Irish writing in the Latin alphabet.... (d. 604)
Padraic Colum was an Ireland poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival.... (1881 – 1972)
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)
P?draig J. Daly is a contemporary Republic of Ireland poet.P?draig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, County Waterford and is now working as an Augustinian priest in Dublin.... (born 1943)
Greg Delanty is a noted contemporary Republic of Ireland poet.Delanty won the National Poetry Competition in 1999 and was awarded the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry prize in 1996.... (born 1958)
Denis Devlin was, along with Samuel Beckett and Brian Coffey, one of the generation of Ireland modernist poetry poets to emerge at the end of the 1920s.... (1908 – 1959)
John Dillon was an Ireland land reform agitator, Irish Home Rule Bill activist, Irish nationalism politician, Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.... (1816 – 1866)
Gerard Donovan is an acclaimed List of Irish novelists and List of Irish poets currently living in New York and in Charleston, Illinois.Donovan attracted immediate critical acclaim with his debut novel Schopenhauer's Telescope, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2003.... (born ?)
Steve Downes is an American disc jockey and voice actor. He is best known for his work as the voice of Master Chief in the popular Halo . He also works as the morning disc jockey for WDRV "The Drive" in Chicago, Illinois.... (born 1973)
William Drennan ,a physician, poet, educationalist and political radical, was one of the chief architects of the Society of United Irishmen. He is also known as the first to refer in print to Ireland as "the emerald isle" in his poem "When Erin first rose".... (d. 1820)
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, Order of St Michael and St George Ireland Irish nationalism and Australian colonial politician, was the 8th Premier of Victoria and one of the most colourful figures in Victorian political history.... (1816 – 1903)
Flann Mainistrech was an Ireland poet and historian.Flann was the son Echthigern mac ?engusso, who had been lector at the monastery of Monasterboice , in Irish Mainistir Buite, whence Flann's byname, meaning "of Monasterboice".... (d. 1056)
Patrick Galvin is an Ireland writer and poet born in Cork off Barrack Street, a poor part of Cork known for its variety of local characters.... (born 1927)
William Monk Gibbon was an Irish poet and prolific author. He wrote also novels, travel writing and criticism. He has been characterised as "self-regarding and prickly".... (1896 – 1987)
Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-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)
Stephen Lucius Gwynn was an Irish people journalist, biographer, author, poet and Protestant Nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.... (1864 – 1950)
Randolph Healy is an Irish poetry 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.... (born 1956)
Seamus Heaney is an Irish people poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin.... (born 1939)
Douglas Hyde was an Anglo-Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. He founded the Gaelic League, one of the most influential cultural organisations in Ireland.... (1860 – 1949)
Valentin Iremonger was an Irish people 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 Jordan was an Ireland poet born in Dublin on 8 April 1930. He was educated at Synge Street CBS, University College, Dublin and Pembroke College, Oxford.... (1930 – 1988)
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man .... (1882 – 1941)
Trevor Joyce is an Ireland 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)
Charles Joseph Kickham was an Ireland revolutionary, novelist, poet, journalist and one of the most prominent members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.... (d. 1882)
Francis Ledwidge was an Ireland poet from County Meath, sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", killed in action near Ypres, Belgium during World War I.... (1887 – 1917)
Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.... (1899 – 1963)
Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet.Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus .... (born 1939)
Luccreth moccuCh?ara was a poet from County Kerry, Ireland who wrote in archaic Old Irish.His work includes Conailla Medb m?churu , found in a genealogical tract in the 15th century manuscript Laud Misc 610 in the Bodleian Library.... (fl. c. 600)
Donagh MacDonagh was an Irish people writer and judge.The son of the poet Thomas MacDonagh, he was born in Dublin and was still a young child when his father was executed in 1916.... (1912 – 1968)
Patrick MacDonogh was an Irish poetry. 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.... (1902 – 1961)
Hugh McFadden is an Ireland poet, literary editor and freelance journalist.He was born in Derry, lived briefly there and in County Donegal, before moving to Dublin.... (born 1942)
Patrick MacGill was an Ireland journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a "navvy" before he began writing.... (1889 – 1960)
Thomas MacGreevy was a pivotal figure in the history of Irish poetry literary modernist poetry. A poet, he was also director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1950 to 1963 and served on the first Irish Arts Council .... (1893 – 1967)
Frederick Louis MacNeice was a United Kingdom poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and C.... (1907 – 1963)
Gerard 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.... (born 1980)
Brian 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 C?irt An Mhe?n O?che is widely regarded as the greatest comic poem in the history of Irish literature.... (1747 – 1805)
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 a two volumes of memoir.... (born 1929)
Thomas Moore was an Irishman poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer.... (1779 – 1852)
Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University.... (born 1951)
Nuala N? Dhomhnaill is an Ireland 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.... (born 1952)
D?ibh? ? Bruadair was one of the most significant Irish language Irish poetry 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 poetic classes.... (David O Bruadair) (1625 - 1698)
M?irt?n ? Dire?in born in Sruth?n on Inishmore in the Aran Islands was an Irish language poet.The son of a small-farmer, M?irt?n ? Dire?in spoke only Irish language until his mid-teens.... (1910 – 1988)
Mary Devenport O'Neill was an Irish poetry and Irish theatre and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats.O'Neill studied at the National College of Art in Dublin.... (1879 – 1967)
Aodhag?n ? Rathaille also spelt Aog?n ? Rathaille was an Irish language Irish poetry. He is credited with creating the first fully developed Aisling poem.... (1675 – 1729)
Se?n ? R?ord?in was an Irish language poet born in the Irish speaking parish of Muskerry in County Cork. His native area was rich in Gaelic literature, and the Irish language was the predominant language of ? R?ord?in's environment until the age of fifteen, when he moved to an English speaking area close to Cork city.... (1916 – 1977)
Cathal ? Searcaigh is an Ireland poet who writes in the Irish language .? Searcaigh was born in Gort an Choirce, a town in the Gaeltacht region of Donegal, and lives at the foot of Mount Errigal.... (born 1956)
Eoghan Rua ? S?illeabh?in was an Irish people poet.? S?illeabh?in is known as one of the last great Irish language poets. A recent anthology of Irish-language poetry speaks of his "extremely musical" poems full of "astonishing technical virtuosity" and also notes that "Eoghan Rua is still spoken of and quoted in Irish-speaking districts in... (1748 - 1782)
Seumas or Seamus O'Sullivan, real name James Sullivan Starkey, was an Irish poetry and editor of The Dublin Magazine. He was born in Dublin and spent his adult life in the suburb of Rathgar.... (1879 - 1958)
Eoghan ? Tuairisc was an Ireland poet and writer.LifeHe was a native of Ballinasloe, County Galway and was educated at Garbally College.... (Eugene Watters) (1919 – 1982)
Francis Arthur 'Frank' Ormsby is a Northern Irish poet.He was educated at St. Michael's College , Enniskillen and Queen's University Belfast.... (born 1947)
Patrick Henry Pearse was a teacher, barrister, Irish poetry, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916.... (Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais) (1879 – 1916)
Thomas Neilson Paulin is a Northern Ireland 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.... (born 1949)
George Reavey was a Russian-born Irish poetry surrealist poet, publisher, translator and art collector. He was also Samuel Beckett's first literary agent.... (1907 - 1976)
Esm? Stuart Lennox Robinson was an Ireland dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre.Robinson was born in Westgrove, Douglas in County Cork and raised in a Protestant and Unionism family in which he was the youngest of seven children.... (1886 - 1958)
Gabriel Rosenstock is an Irish poetry and haiku writer. He was born in Kilfinane, County Limerick in 1949. He currently resides in Dublin.Rosenstock's father was a physician and writer from Schleswig-Holstein; his mother a nurse from County Galway.... (born 1949)
Blanaid Salkeld was an Ireland poet, dramatist, and actor, whose well-known literary salon was attended by, among others, Patrick Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien.... (1880 – 1959)
Maurice Scully is an Irish poetry and editor who works in the Modernist poetry tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus .... (born 1952)
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)
Michael Smith is an Irish people poet, author and translator. He was one of the founders of New Writers Press in Dublin . He is possibly most noted for his works on James Clarence Mangan, as well as his Spanish language to English language poetry translations.... (born 1942)
James Stephens may refer to:* James Stephens , Welsh-born Australian stonemason and trade unionist* James B. Stephens , founder of East Portland, Oregon... ( 1880 – 1950)
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satire, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Dublin.... (1667 – 1745)
Catherine Walsh is a Paralympian Track and field from Ireland competing mainly in category P13 pentathlon events. She competed in the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain.... (born 1964)
Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde was an Ireland poet and supporter of the Irish nationalism; had a special interest on Irish Fairy Tales, which she helped to gather.... (1821 - 1896)
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day.... (1845 – 1900)
James Wills, , was an Ireland writer and poet.Wills was born in County Roscommon, the younger son of a landowner. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin, and studied law in the Middle Temple, London.... (1790 - 1868)
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish language and the other in English language. 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 categorise....
For a comparatively small island, Ireland has made a disproportionate contribution to world literature in all its branches. Irish Literature encompasses the Irish Language and English Language languages....
This is a list of playwrights either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. Playwrights whose work is in Irish language are included. A brief outline of the history of Irish theatre is also available....
A list of Ireland historians is presented in this article, from the earliest times up to the present day, by historical periods and in alphabetically order for easier reference....
This is a list of novelists either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. Novelists whose work is in Irish language are included as well as those whose work is in English....
This is a list of short story Irish writers either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. Short story writers whose work is in Irish language are included....
