List of Irish poets

This is a list of poets either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. Poets whose work is in Irish are included.

A brief outline of the history of Irish poetry is also available.

A-D

• Æ (George William Russell) (1867-1935)
• William Allingham (1824-1889)
• Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
• Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
• Eavan Boland (born 1944)
• Pat Boran (born 1963)
• Austin Clarke (1896-1974)
• Brian Coffey (1905-1995)
• Padraic Colum (1881-1972)
• Thomas Davis (1814-1845)
• Denis Devlin (1908-1959)
• John Dillon (1816-1866)
• Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903)

E-L

• Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886)
• Patrick Galvin (born 1927)
• Monk Gibbon (1896 - 1987)
• Oliver St John Gogarty (1878 - 1957)
• Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774)
• Michael Hartnet (1944-1999)
• Randolph Healy (born 1956)
• Seamus Heaney (born 1939)
• F. R. Higgins (1896-1941)
• Douglas Hyde (1860 - 1949)
• John Jordan
• Trevor Joyce
• Emily Lawless (1845 - 1913)
• James Liddy

M-P

• Máire Mhac an tSaoi (born 1922)
• Denis Florence McCarthy (1817 - 1868)
• Donagh MacDonagh (1912 - 1968)
• Thomas MacDonagh (1878 - 1916)
• Thomas MacGreevy (1893 - 1967)
• Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
• Bryant H. McGill
• James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)
• Brian Merriman (1747-1805)
• Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
• Paul Muldoon (born 1951)
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (born 1942)
• Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (born 1952)
• Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (David O Bruadair)
• Máirtín Ó Direáin (1910-1988)
• Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879-1967)
• Antoine Ó Raifteiri (Anthony Raftery) (1784 - 1835)
• Aogán Ó Rathaille (1675 - 1729)
• Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916-1977)
• Seamus O'Sullivan
• Eoghan O Tuairisc (Eugene Watters) (1919-1982)
• Tom Paulin
• Joseph Plunkett (1887 - 1916)

Q-T

• George Reavey
• Lennox Robinson
• Gabriel Rosenstock (born 1949)
• Blanaid Salkeld (1880-1959)
• Maurice Scully (born 1952)
• Michael Smith (born 1942)
• Geoffrey Squires (born 1942)
• James Stephens ( 1880 - 1950)
• Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
• Katherine Tynan (1861 - 1931)

U-Z

• Catherine Walsh (born 1964)
• Oscar Wilde (1845-1900)
• W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
• Augustus Young (born 1943)

See also

• Irish literature
• List of Irish dramatists
• List of Irish novelists
• List of Irish short story writers

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