1. Charles Wolfe (1791)

Irish Poet

Nineteenth-century Irish poet known for "The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna." This poem appears along with fourteen others in Poetical Remains, a posthumously-published collection of Wolfe's literary work....

2. Katharine Tynan (1859)

Irish Poet

Prolific Irish author of more than a hundred novels, numerous poems, and five autobiographical works. Her publications include Three Fair Maids, or the Burkes of Derrymore; The Land of Mist...

3. Francis Ledwidge (1887)

Irish Poet

Irish World War I-era poet known for Songs of the Fields and Songs of Peace. His complete poems were published posthumously in 1919.

4. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904)

Irish Poet

Irish poet, novelist, nonfiction author, translator, and one-time United Kingdom Poet Laureate. His numerous literary works include From Feathers to Iron (poems), A Question of Proof (novel), and The Buried...

5. Seamus Heaney (1939)

Irish Poet

Northern Irish-born author and poet who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best known works include Death of a Naturalist (1966), a modern translation of Beowulf (1999), and...

6. Michael Hartnett (1941)

Irish Poet

Important twentieth-century Irish poet who wrote in both the English and Gaelic languages. His best-known literary works include Inchicore Haiku, Poems to Younger Women, and A Necklace of Wrens.

7. Eavan Boland (1944)

Irish Poet

Irish poet known for In a Time of Violence, In Her Own Image, Night Feed, and other works focusing on the lives of women. Her numerous literary honors include the...

8. Paul Muldoon (1951)

Irish Poet

Irish, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for such collections as Moy Sand and Gravel, Meeting the British, Horse Latitudes, and Hopewell Haiku. He taught poetry at Oxford University from 1999-2004.

9. Sean Godley (1981)

Irish Poet

Sean Godley is an Irish-Australian writer and poet. Born in Cavan he is the son of John Godley 3rd Baron Kilbracken and his second wife Susan Heazlewood. He grew up...

10. Tony Curtis (Irish poet) (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Tony Curtis is an Irish poet. Curtis was born in Dublin and educated at the University of Essex and at Trinity College Dublin. In 1993 he won the Poetry Ireland/Friends...

11. Billy Mills (poet) (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Billy Mills is an Irish experimental poet. He was born in Dublin and lived in Barcelona from 1986 to 1989 after which he taught English in Eastbourne. He lives in...

12. Paul Durcan (1944)

Irish Poet

Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish poet.

13. Frank McGuinness (1953)

Irish Poet

Professor Frank McGuinness is an Irish playwright and poet. As well as his own works which include The Factory Girls Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Someone...

14. Matthew Sweeney (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Matthew Sweeney is an Irish poet.

15. Harry Clifton (1907)

Irish Poet

Harry Clifton is an Irish poet. He was born in Dublin but has lived in Africa and Asia as well as more recently in continental Europe.

16. Cathal Ó Searcaigh (1956)

Irish Poet

Cathal Ó Searcaigh is an Irish poet playwright and prose writer who writes in the Irish language. Ó Searcaigh was born in Gort a' Choirce a town in the Gaeltacht...

17. Tom French (poet) (1966)

Irish Poet

Tom French is an Irish poet.

18. Rita Kelly (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Rita Kelly is an Irish poet from Ballinasloe in eastern County Galway who now lives in an old lock house along the river Barrow between Athy and Carlow. She has...

19. Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna (1680)

Irish Poet

Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna Irish poet c. 1680 – 1756.

20. Alice Milligan (1865)

Irish Poet

Alice Milligan was an Irish nationalist poet and writer active in the Gaelic League.

21. Maurice Riordan (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Maurice 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...

22. Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh (1984)

Irish Poet

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is an Irish poet who writes in the Irish language. Born in Tralee County Kerry in 1984 she graduated from NUI Galway in 2005 with a BA...

23. Robert Greacen (1920)

Irish Poet

Robert Greacen was an Irish poet and member of Aosdána. Born in Derry Ireland on 24 October 1920 he was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. He...

24. Seamus Mac Cruitín (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Seamus Mac Cruitín was a 19th-century Irish poet and bard.

25. Jim Craven (Unknow)

Irish Poet

James Craven was an Irish poet. He was born at Balregan outside of Dundalk County Louth.

26. Colm de Bhailís (1796)

Irish Poet

Colm de Bhailís was an Irish poet and songwriter from Lettermullen Connemara Ireland. He was quite possibly the last living person from the 18th century. De Bhailís was a stonemason...

27. Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916)

Irish Poet

Seán Pádraig Ó Ríordáin was one of the most important Irish language poets of the twentieth century and arguably the most significant figure in introducing European themes into traditional poetry.

28. Seán Ó Tuama (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Seán Ó Tuama was an Irish poet playwright and academic.

29. Maurice Scully (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Maurice Scully is an Irish poet who works in the modernist tradition. Scully was born in Dublin & educated at Trinity College.

30. Kate Cruise O'Brien (1948)

Irish Poet

Kate Cruise O'Brien was an Irish writer. The third and youngest child of the politician and diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien she was born in Dublin and grew up in Howth....

31. Piaras Feiritéar (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Piaras Feiritéar was an Irish poet. Feiritéar was a Norman-Irish lord of Baile an Fheirtéaraigh in Corca Dhuibhne. Although best known as a poet it was his role as a...

32. Jeremiah Joseph Callanan (1795)

Irish Poet

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan was an Irish poet born in County Cork Ireland. Callanan studied for Catholic priesthood at Maynooth College and afterwards law at Trinity College Dublin where he won...

33. Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Sister Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy was an Irish poet and nun. MacCarthy was a daughter of poet Denis Florence MacCarthy who wrote as Desmond of The Nation. She was born in...

34. Sydney Bernard Smith (1936)

Irish Poet

Sydney Bernard Smith was a Scots-Irish poet dramatist actor and novelist. He was born in Glasgow but brought up in Portstewart County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. He was elected a...

35. Teresa Brayton (1868)

Irish Poet

Teresa Brayton was an Irish nationalist writer and poet. She was born Teresa Boylan at Kilbrook Kil* in County Kildare. She emigrated to America in 1895 and settled first in...

36. William Dunkin (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Dunkin D. D. was an Irish poet.

37. Monk Gibbon (1896)

Irish Poet

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...

38. Walter Quin (1575)

Irish Poet

Quin was an Irish poet who worked in Scotland and England for the House of Stuart.

39. Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill (1691)

Irish Poet

Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill was an Irish language poet in the first half of the 18th century.

40. Ewart Milne (1903)

Irish Poet

Ewart Milne was an Irish poet who described himself on various book jackets as a sailor before the mast ambulance driver and courier during the Spanish Civil War a land...

41. Jerome Kiely (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Jerome Kiely Irish poet born 1925. Born in Kinsale County Cork Kiely was educated at the county's diocesean college and at St. Patrick's Maynooth. He was ordained a priest in...

42. Andrew Jamison (1986)

Irish Poet

Andrew Jamison is a Northern Irish poet and teacher. His first collection of poetry Happy Hour was published by Gallery Press in July 2012. He was educated at Down High...

43. Bernard O'Donoghue (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Bernard O'Donoghue is a noted contemporary Irish poet and academic. Born in Cullen County Cork Ireland he moved to Manchester England when he was 16 where he attended St Bede's...

44. Noelle Vial (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Noelle Vial was an Irish poet. Born in County Donegal Ireland she was the recipient from The Evening Herald of the Hennessy Literary Award for best emerging poet in 1994....

45. T. W. Rolleston (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Thomas William Hazen Rolleston was an Irish writer literary figure and translator known as a poet but publishing over a wide range of literary and political topics. He lived at...

46. Kenneth Allott (1912)

Irish Poet

Kenneth Allott was an Anglo-Irish poet and academic and authority on Matthew Arnold.

47. Samuel Ferguson (1810)

Irish Poet

Sir Samuel Ferguson was an Irish poet barrister antiquarian artist and public servant. Perhaps the most important Ulster-Scot poet of the 19th century because of his interest in Irish mythology...

48. Richard D'Alton Williams (1822)

Irish Poet

Richard D'Alton Williams was an Irish physician and poet Shamrock of the Nation.

49. Gerry Hanberry (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Gerard Hanberry is an award-winning Irish poet. He lives in Galway Ireland.

50. Kevin Faller (Unknow)

Irish Poet

Kevin Faller was an Irish scriptwriter and poet. Faller was born in Galway City. His parental grandparents were German refugees from the Black Forest in Bavaria and had opened a...