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List Of Irish Poets
This is a list of notable poets with Wikipedia pages, who were born or raised in Ireland or hold Irish citizenship. Abbreviations for the languages of their writings: E: English; F: French; I: Irish (); L: Latin; R: Russian A–D * Adomnán (d. 704, L) * Æ (George William Russell) (1867–1935, E) * William Allingham (1824–1889, E) * Ivy Bannister (born 1951, E) * Leland Bardwell (1922–2016, E) * Beccán mac Luigdech (fl. c. 650, I) * Samuel Beckett (1906–1989, E/F) * Brendan Behan (1923–1964, E) * Gerard Beirne (born 1962, E) * Thomas Bibby (1799–1863, E) * Blathmac mac Cú Brettan (fl. c. 750, I) * Eavan Boland (born 1944, E) * Dermot Bolger (born 1959, E) * Pat Boran (born 1963, E) * Samuel Boyse (1709–1749, E) * Rory Brennan (born 1945, E) * Frances Browne (1816–1887, E) * George Brun (fl. late 18th century, I) * Colette Bryce (born 1970, E) * Catherine Byron (born 1947), E * Michael Feeney Callan (born 1955, E) * Moya Cannon (born 1956, E) * Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Boran
Pat Boran (born 1963) is an Irish poet. Biography 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. Currently he is the presenter of "The Poetry Programme", a weekly half-hour poetry programme on RTÉ Radio 1, where he has interviewed poets such as Tess Gallagher, Tony Curtis, John Haynes, Gerry Murphy and Jane Hirshfield. His poetry publications include ''The Unwound Clock'' (1990), ''History and Promise'' (1991), ''Familiar Things'' (1993), ''The Shape of Water'' (1996), ''As the Hand, the Glove'' (2001) and ''The Next Life'' (2012). His ''New and Selected Poems'' (2005), with an introduction by the Dennis O'Driscoll, was first published by Salt Publishing UK and was reissued in 2007 by Dedalus Press. ''Waveforms: Bull Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Clarke (poet)
Austin Clarke (Irish: AibhistÃn Ó Cléirigh) (9 May 1896 – 19 March 1974), born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, 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. Effectively, this meant writing English verse based not so much on metre as on complex patterns of assonance, consonance, and half rhyme. Describing his technique to Robert Frost, Clarke said "I load myself down with chains and try to wriggle free." Early career Clarke's early poetry clearly shows the influence of Yeats. His first book, ''The Vengeance of Fionn'', was a long narrative poem retelling an Ossianic legend. It met with critical acclaim and, unusually for a first book of poetry, went to a second edition. Between this and the 1938 volume ''Night and Morning'', Clarke publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Chapman
Patrick Chapman (born 1968) is an Irish poet, writer and screenwriter. Chapman's first published work was ''Jazztown'', released in 1991 by Raven Arts Press. This was followed five years later by ''The New Pornography'', a collection of poems described as "darkly humorous" by ''The Irish Times''. His story collection, ''The Wow Signal'' (Bluechrome Publishing ) was published in 2007. He also wrote the ''Doctor Who'' audio drama, ''"Fear of the Daleks"'' (Big Finish, 2007). Based on his own published story of the same name, he wrote the short drama film ''Burning The Bed'', which starred Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen. ''Burning The Bed'' was a prizewinner at the 2004 Worldfest film festival in Houston, Texas and was also named Best Narrative Short at the DeadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Chapman has also written five episodes of the children's television series, Garth and ''Bev'', for Kavaleer Productions. This aired on RTÉ in 2009 and Cbeebies in 2010, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óengus Of Tallaght
Óengus mac Óengobann, better known as Saint Óengus of Tallaght or Óengus the Culdee, was an Irish bishop, reformer and writer, who flourished in the first quarter of the 9th century and is held to be the author of the ''Félire Óengusso'' ("Martyrology of Óengus") and possibly the ''Martyrology of Tallaght''. Little of Óengus's life and career is reliably attested. The most important sources include internal evidence from the ''Félire'', a later Middle Irish preface to that work, a biographic poem beginning ''AÃbind suide sund amne'' ("Delightful to sit here thus") and the entry for his feast-day inserted into the ''Martyrology of Tallaght''. Background He was known as a son of Óengoba and grandson of OÃblén, who is mentioned in a later genealogy as belonging to the Dál nAraidi, a ruling kindred in the north-east of Ireland. A late account prefaced to the Martyrology asserts that Óengus was born in Clúain Édnech/Eidnech (Clonenagh, Spahill, County Laois, Irel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Casey (poet-priest)
James Kevin Casey (1824–1909) was an Irish priest in Ballygar and Athleague and principal of St John's seminary in Sligo. He composed many didactic poems which were popular and published in collections. Their subjects included materialism, devotion, the Irish language and, most especially, temperance. An example is a verse of ''The Toper and his Bottle'', Casey was an inspiration for the "Poet of the Pick", Jem Casey, a character in Flann O'Brien's satirical novel ''At Swim-Two-Birds ''At Swim-Two-Birds'' is a 1939 novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction. The novel's title d ...''. Jem Casey was a labourer who wrote "pomes" such as ''The Workman's Friend'', References Irish temperance activists 1824 births 1909 deaths Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth Irish poets 19th-century Irish Roman Catholic prie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciarán Carson
Ciaran Gerard Carson (9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist. Biography Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family. His father, William, was a postman and his mother, Mary, worked in the linen mills. He spent his early years in the lower Falls Road where he attended Slate Street School and then St. Gall's Primary School, both of which subsequently closed. He then attended St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School before proceeding to Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) to read for a degree in English. After graduation, he worked for over twenty years as the Traditional Arts Officer of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In 1998 he was appointed a Professor of English at QUB where he established, and was the Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. He retired in 2016 but remained attached to the organisation on a part-time basis. In 2020, the Seamus Heaney Centre established two, annual Fellowships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moya Cannon
Moya Cannon (born 1956) is an Irish writer and poet with seven published collections, the most recent being ''Collected Poems'' (Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2021). Life Born in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal, Ireland, Moya Cannon studied history and politics at University College Dublin and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She then moved to Galway where she worked as a teacher. For several years she taught in a special school for adolescent traveller children. In addition, she taught courses in creative writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway and was co-director of The International Writers’ Course at NUIG. Her ''Collected Poems'' has been published by Carcanet Press, Manchester (2021). Her sixth collection, ''Donegal Tarantella'', was issued by Carcanet Press in 2019. In her poems, history, archaeology, prehistoric art, geology and music figure as gateways to deeper understanding of our relationship with the earth and with our past. Migration is a core the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Feeney Callan
Michael Feeney Callan is an Irish novelist and poet. An award winner for his short fiction and also for non-fiction, he joined BBC television drama as a story editor, and wrote screenplays for ''The Professionals'', and for American television. He wrote the template Irish police drama series, ''The Burke Enigma'', starring Donal McCann, and ''Love Is'', starring Gabriel Byrne, and went on to write and direct a number of documentaries, among them ''The Beach Boys Today'', a film that marked the band's 30th anniversary. He has published several novels and has written biographies of Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and Richard Harris. His biography of Robert Redford (''Robert Redford: The Biography''; Knopf, 2011) was chosen by the ''Sunday Times'' as one of its recommended Best Books of 2011. It was subsequently awarded the Lucien Barriere Prize for Literature by the jury of the Deauville American Film Festival. In 2013, he published his second volume of poetry, ''An Argument for Sin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Byron
Catherine Byron (born 22 August 1947) is an Irish poet who often collaborates with visual and sound artists. Biography Catherine Greenfield was born in London to a mother from Galway and was raised in Belfast. She has lived in Oxford, Scotland, Derry and County Donegal. She became Catherine Byron when she married at about twenty and had daughters. Educated in Somerville College, Oxford, Byron studied Classics and wrote poetry for most of her life until she married. She stopped writing then for about ten years. Since resuming poetry Byron has published six collections. As well as writing her own poetry, Byron has studied Seamus Heaney and wrote the work ''Out of Step: Pursuing Seamus Heaney to Purgatory''. Byron frequently works both with artist and calligrapher Denis Brown, and painter and printmaker Eileen Coxon. She has been artist in residence at the Hayward Gallery and the department of Glass & Ceramics at the University of Sunderland. She has taught writing and Medieval L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Bryce
Colette Bryce is a poet, freelance writer, and editor. She was a Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee from 2003 to 2005, and a North East Literary Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 2005 to 2007. She was the Poetry Editor of Poetry London from 2009 to 2013. In 2019 Bryce succeeded Eavan Boland as editor of ''Poetry Ireland Review''. Early life Bryce was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, where she was educated at Thornhill College. Bryce lived in London until 2002 when she moved to Scotland. She moved to the North East of England in 2005. Works Bryce's first published work was included in the 1995 volume ''Anvil New Poets'', ed. Carol Ann Duffy, which also introduced the work of poets Kate Clanchy and Alice Oswald, among others. That year she won an Eric Gregory Award. Her poetry appears in the recent anthologies ''Modern Women Poets'' (Bloodaxe), and ''The New Irish Poets'' (Bloodaxe), ''Forward Book of Poetry 2009'' (Forward), ''Hand in Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Brun
George Brun, aka George Brown, Irish poet, fl. late 18th century. Brun was a native of Dun na Geige or Brownstown, near Hollymount, in County Mayo County Mayo (; ga, Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the Taxus baccata, yew trees") is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Conn .... One of his few surviving songs or poems, ''Mairead Nic Shuibhne'', is over one hundred verses long, and concerns a woman he loves due to be married to someone else. In the course of the song, the woman tries to save him from depression by pretending that she never loved him. References * "County Mayo in Gaelic Folksong", Brian O'Rourke, pp. 178–79, "Mayo: Aspects of its Heritage", ed. Bernard O'Hara, 1982. 18th-century Irish-language poets People from County Mayo Year of death unknown Year of birth missing {{Ireland-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |