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This is a list of poets either born in
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or holding Irish citizenship. Poets whose work is in
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are included.
A–D
- Adomnan (d. 704)
- Æ (George William Russell)
Not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell .George William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym Æ , was an Irish nationalist, writer, editor, critic, poet, and painter...
(1867 – 1935)
- Gary Allen
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. Gary Allen was a prominent member of the John Birch Society, of which he was a spokesman. He contributed to magazines such as...
(born 1964)
- Joseph Allen
Joseph Allen may refer to:* Joseph Allen , member of the eleventh United States Congress* Joseph Allen , Bishop of Bristol and Bishop of Ely* Joseph Henry Allen , Unitarian scholar* Joseph P...
(born 1964)
- William Allingham
William Allingham was an Irish man of letters and a poet.He was born in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, Ireland, and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent...
(1824 – 1889)
- Becc mac Lethdergain (fl. 5th century)
- Beccan mac Luigdech (fl. c. 650?)
- Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist....
(1906 – 1989)
- Brendan Behan
Brendan 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 Beirne
Gerard Beirne is an Irish 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 Cú Brettan
Blathmac mac Cú Brettan, Irish Fíle , fl. 760.Believed to have being born in southern Airgíalla , Blathmac was educated in a monastic school and went on to become a monk, strongly influenced by the Céli Dé movement...
(fl. c. 750)
- Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland is an Irish poet.-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...
(born 1944)
- Dermot Bolger
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. Bolger questions the relevance of traditional...
(born 1959)
- Pat Boran
Pat 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 Boyse
Samuel 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.Born in Dublin, Boyse was the son of Joseph Boyse, a dissenting minister...
(1709 - 1749)
- Bri mac Bairchid (fl. 5th century)
- Broccan (fl. 7th century)
- Frances Browne
Frances Browne was an Irish poet and novelist, best remembered for her collection of short stories for children: Granny's Wonderful Chair....
(1816 – 1887)
- Moya Cannon
Moya 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)
- Ciaran Carson
Ciarán Carson, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a poet and novelist. He lives in Belfast.-Early years:Ciarán Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family. He attended St Marys CBGS Belfast before proceeding to Queen's University, Belfast to read for a degree in English...
(born 1948)
- Philip Casey (born 1950)
- Patrick Chapman
Patrick Chapman is an Irish writer. His poetry collections are Jazztown, , The New Pornography, , Breaking Hearts And Traffic Lights, and A Shopping Mall on Mars, . His collection of stories is The Wow Signal,...
(born 1968)
- Austin Clarke
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 Cleary
Brendan 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 Coffey
Brian 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
Colmán mac Lénéni, 530-c. 606, religious poet.Believed to be born in Desmond , Colmán 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.-Source:*Oxford Concise Companion to Irish...
(d. 604)
- Padraic Colum
Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer 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 Cunningham
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. Daly
Pádraig J. Daly is a contemporary Irish poet.Pádraig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, County Waterford and is now working as an Augustinian priest in Dublin...
(born 1943)
- Thomas Davis
Thomas Osborne Davis was a revolutionary Irish writer who was the chief organizer and poet of the Young Ireland movement.-Early life:...
(1814 – 1845)
- Greg Delanty
Greg Delanty is a noted contemporary Irish poet.Delanty won the National Poetry Competition in 1999 and was awarded the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry prize in 1996...
(born 1958)
- Denis Devlin
Denis 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 Dillon
John Dillon was an Irish land reform agitator, Irish Home Rule activist, nationalist politician, Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.-Early life:John Dillon was born in Blackrock, Dublin...
(1816 – 1866)
- Des Donnelly (born 1955)
- Theo Dorgan
Theo 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 Donovan
Gerard Donovan is an acclaimed Irish-born novelist and poet currently living in New York.Donovan attracted immediate critical acclaim with his debut novel Schopenhauer's Telescope, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2003.[The Booker Prize Foundation...]
(born ?)
- Steve Downes
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 video game series. He also works as the morning disc jockey for 97.1 WDRV "The Drive" in Chicago, Illinois....
http://stevedownes.synthasite.com/ (born 1973)
- William Drennan
William 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 Duffy
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, KCMG Irish nationalist and Australian colonial politician, was the 8th Premier of Victoria and one of the most colourful figures in Victorian political history. Duffy was born in Dublin Street, Monaghan Town, County Monaghan, Ireland, the son of a Catholic shopkeeper...
(1816 – 1903)
- Seán Dunne
- 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 Durcan
Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish poet.-Life and Works:His main published collections include: A Snail in my Prime, Crazy About Women, Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil and Cries of an Irish Caveman...
(1944)
E–L
- John Ennis
- Flann Mainistrech
Flann 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 Galvin
Patrick Galvin is an Irish writer and poet born in the south side of Cork on Margaret Street, a poor part of Cork known for its variety of local characters.-Biography:...
(born 1927)
- Monk Gibbon
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 St John Gogarty (1878 – 1957)
- Oliver Goldsmith
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
Stephen Lucius Gwynn was an Irish journalist, biographer, author, poet and Protestant nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As member of the Irish Parliamentary Party he represented Galway city from 1906 to 1918...
(1864 – 1950)
- Michael Hartnett (1944 – 1999)
- Randolph Healy
Randolph 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 Heaney
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin.-Early life:...
(born 1939)
- F. R. Higgins
Frederick 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%2C poet %281967-
- Rita Ann Higgins (born 1955)
- Pearse Hutchinson
Pearse 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 Hyde
Douglas 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 Iremonger
Valentin 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)
- Diarmuid Johnson (born 1965)
- John Jordan
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 Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish expatriate author, playwright and poet of the 20th century. He is 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...
(1882 – 1941)
- Trevor Joyce
Trevor 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)
- Thomas Kinsella
Thomas Kinsella is an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.-Early life and work:Kinsella was born in Inchicore, County Dublin. He spent much of his childhood with relatives in rural Ireland. He was educated through the medium of Irish at the Model School, Inchicore and the O'Connell...
(born 1928)
- Charles Kickham
Charles 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)
- Emily Lawless
-Life account :She was born at Lyons House below Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare. Her grandfather was a member of the United Irishmen Valentine Lawless and son of a convert from Catholicism to the Church of Ireland...
(1845 – 1913)
- Francis Ledwidge
Francis 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. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist...
(1899 – 1963)
- Liadan of Corcu Duibhne (fl. 7th century)
- James Liddy
- Michael Longley
Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is married to Edna Longley an influential critic on modern Irish and British poetry....
(born 1939)
- Luccreth moccu Chiara
Luccreth moccu Chíara was a poet from County Kerry, Ireland who wrote in archaic Old Irish. Moccu x is an archaic form marking affiliation to an ancestral population group or gens, in this case the Cíarraige...
(fl. c. 600)
- Frank L. Ludwig (born 1964)
M–P
- Mael Ruain of Tallaght (d. pre-800)
- Marcus of Ratisbon (fl. 1149)
- The Monk of Reichenau (fl. early 9th century)
- Oengus Celi De (fl. c. 800)
- Oengus mac Oengoba mac Oiblean (fl. c. 800)
- Orthanach ua Coellamae (fl. late 8th century)
- Máire Mhac an tSaoi
Máire Mhac an tSaoi is an Irish language scholar and academic.-Background:Mhac an tSaoi was born Máire MacEntee in Dublin. Her father, Seán MacEntee, was one of the founding members of Fianna Fáil, a long-serving TD and Tánaiste in the Dáil and a participant in the Easter Rising of 1916...
(born 1922)
- Denis Florence MacCarthy
Denis 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 the 26 May, 1817, and educated there and at Maynooth...
(1817 – 1868)
- Donagh MacDonagh
Donagh MacDonagh was an Irish 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. Tragedy struck again when his mother died not long afterwards in a swimming accident.MacDonagh was educated at Belvedere...
(1912 – 1968)
- Thomas MacDonagh
Thomas MacDonagh was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.-Early Life:...
(1878 – 1916)
- Patrick MacDonogh
Patrick 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)
- Hugh McFadden
Hugh McFadden is an Irish poet, literary editor and freelance journalist.He was born in Derry, lived briefly there and in County Donegal, before moving to Dublin...
(born 1942)
- Seán MacFalls (born 1957)
- Patrick MacGill
Patrick 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 MacGreevy
Thomas 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)
- Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon is a Northern Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.-Biography:Mahon was born the only child of Ulster Protestant working class parents. His father and grandfather worked at Harland and Wolff while his mother worked at a local Flax Mill...
(born 1941)
- Louis MacNeice
Frederick Louis MacNeice was an Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis; nicknamed "MacSpaunday" as a group — a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco...
(1907 – 1963)
- Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Biography:Born in Belfast, she was educated at a Dominican convent and Queen's University, Belfast. She has worked as a teacher in her native Belfast at St...
(born 1950)
- Niall McGrath (born 1966)
- Gerard McKeown
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.He has performed as a support act for other...
(born 1980)
- Nigel McLoughlin (born 1968)
- William Brendan McPhillips (1937 – 2008)
- James Clarence Mangan
James 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)
- Paula Meehan
-Biography:Born in Dublin, Meehan studied at Trinity College, Dublin,and at Eastern Washington University.-Poetry:* Return and no Blame. Dublin: Beaver Row Press, 1984.* Reading the Sky. Dublin: Beaver Row Press, 1986....
(born 1955)
- Brian Merriman
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 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 Milligan
Alice Milligan was an Irish nationalist poet and writer, active in the Gaelic League.-Life:Born and raised a Protestant in Gortmore, near Omagh, Milligan's father was the writer Seaton Milligan...
(1865 – 1953)
- John Montague
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. He is one of the best known Irish contemporary poets...
(born 1929)
- Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer.-Biography:...
(1779 – 1852)
- Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University.-Life and work:...
(born 1951)
- Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Nuala Ní Chonchúir is an Irish writer and poet.-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...
(born 1970)
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
-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 their son Niall. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin where she is...
(born 1942)
- Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Nuala 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)
- Tomas O' Carthaigh (born 1976)
- Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
Dáibhí 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 Direáin
Máirtín Ó Direáin born in Sruthán on Inishmore 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)
- Cinaed Ó hArtucain (d. 975)
- Mary Devenport O'Neill
Mary Devenport O'Neill was an Irish poet and dramatist and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats.O'Neill studied at the National College of Art in Dublin. She published two verse plays, Bluebeard and Cain and one collection of poetry, Prometheus and Other Poems...
(1879 – 1967)
- Antoine Ó Raifteiri
Antoine Ó Raifteiri was an Irish language poet who is often called the last of the wandering bards.-Biography:...
(Anthony Raftery) (1784 – 1835)
- Aogán Ó Rathaille
Aodhagán 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 Ríordáin
Seán Ó Ríordáin 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 Ó Ríordáin's environment until the age of fifteen, when he moved to Inis Carra, an...
(1916 – 1977)
- Flann file Ó Ronan/Flann na Marb (fl. 1022)
- Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Cathal 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
Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin , anglicized as Owen Roe O'Sullivan , was an Irish poet.Ó Súilleabháin is known as one of the last great Gaelic poets...
(1748 - 1782)
- Seamus O'Sullivan
Seumas or Seamus O'Sullivan, real name James Sullivan Starkey, was an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin Magazine. He was born in Dublin and spent his adult life in the suburb of Rathgar...
(1879 - 1958)
- Eoghan Ó Tuairisc
Eoghan 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 Ormsby
Francis 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...
(born 1947)
- Patrick Pearse
Patrick 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 Paulin
Thomas 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 Reavey
George 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)
- Lennox Robinson
Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson was an Irish dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre....
(1886 - 1958)
- Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock is an Irish poet and haiku writer.-Biography:He was born in Kilfinane, County Limerick in 1949. He currently resides in Dublin....
(born 1949)
- Adam Rudden
Adam 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 Salkeld
Blanaid 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 Scully
Maurice Scully is an Irish poet and editor who works in the modernist tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus...
(born 1952)
- Eileen Shanahan
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)
- Michael Smith
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 Squires
Geoffrey 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 Stephens
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
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
(1667 – 1745)
- Senchan Torpeist (fl. c. 580 – c.650)
- Katherine Tynan (1861 – 1931)
- Uallach ni Muimnechaid (d. c. 934)
- Catherine Walsh
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 Wilde
Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde was an Irish poet and supporter of the nationalist movement; had a special interest on Irish Fairy Tales, which she helped to gather...
(1821 - 1896)
- Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet 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 "celebrities" of his day...
(1845 – 1900)
- James Wills
James 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)
- W. B. Yeats (1865 – 1939)
- Augustus Young
For 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)
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