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Index of Irish poets writing in English
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Index of poems written in English by Irish poets
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(poems composed in Irish)
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Anonymous
A Complete Account of the Various Colonizations of Ireland as Delivered by the Sage Fintan
Limericks
O Bonny Portmore
Weile Weile Waile (Down By The River Saile)
The Wexford Carol (
aka
Enniscorthy Carol)
Cecil Frances Alexander
Dreams
Fergus Allen
The Fall
William Allingham
A Dream
The Bubble
The Faeries
The Lepracaun, Or Fairy Shoemaker
The Maids Of Elfin-Mere
above
Samuel Beckett
my way is in the sand flowing
Roundelay
Jean Bleakney
Stargazing for Feminists
Eavan Boland
An Irish Childhood in England: 1951
Anna Liffey
Child Of Our Time
Daphne With Her Thighs In Bark
Fever
Listen, This Is The Noise Of Myth
Mise Éire
On Holiday
That The Science Of Cartography Is Limited
The Atlantic Ocean
The Emigrant Irish
The Pomegranate
Yeats in Civil War
Thomas Boyd
To the Lianhaun Shee
above
S.A. Brooke
The Earth and Man
Christy Brown
Lines Of Leaving
George Buchanan
A Churchman Speaks
J. J. Callanan
Cusheen Loo
[
attributed to Callanan,
but probably by
John Windele
]
Hussa Tha Measg Na Realtan More
The Outlaw of Loch Lene
Joseph Campbell
I Am the Mountainy Singer
My Lagan Love
The Gombeen Man
Moya Cannon
Between the Jigs and the Reels
Carrying the Songs
Night
above
Roger Casement
Verses
Austin Clarke
Inscription for a Headstone
Penal Law
The Awakening Of Dermuid
The Lost Heifer
The Subjection of Women
Edward Sigerson Clifford
The Kerry Christmas Carol
Rhoda Coghill
Dead
above
Padraic Colum
An Old Woman Of The Roads
I Shall Not Die for Thee
[translation]
The Plougher
Michael Comyn
[Mícheál Coimín]
Niamh
James H. Cousins
The Quest
Anthony Cronin
The Man Who Went Absent From The Native Literature
George Darley
Harvest-Home (
The Joy of Childhood)
[excerpt]
Thomas Davis
The West's Asleep
Francis Devine
A Terrible Beauty
Denis Devlin
Renewal By Her Element
above
Sr Anne Therese Dillen
Dark Rosaleen
Eilis Dillon
The Lament for Arthur O'Leary
Gerard Donovan
Skellig Michael
Theo Dorgan
Death Will Come
Edward Dowden
Turf
Tom Drain
Cat
Ian Duhig
I’r Hen Iaith A’i Chaneuon
above
Paul Durcan
Bewley's Oriental Cafe, Westmoreland Street
Going Home To Mayo, Winter, 1949
In Memory: The Miami Showband - Massacred 31 July 1975
Island Musician Going Home
Making Love Outside Áras An Uachtaráin
Margaret Thatcher Joins IRA
10:30 Mass, June 16, 1985
The Cabinet Table
The Day Kerry Became Dublin
The Difficulty That Is Marriage
The Man Whose Name Was Tom-and-Ann
The Kilfenora Teaboy
They Say the Butterfly is the Hardest Stroke
Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail
Amelia Blanford Edwards
Give Me Three Grains Of Corn, Mother
Padraic Fallon
A Hedge Schoolmaster
above
Peter Fallon
Spring Song
Francis Faunt
Leannan Si
Sir Samuel Ferguson
Deirdre's Lament for the Sons of Usnagh
The Fairy Thorn
The Fairy Well Of Lagnanay
The Lark In The Clear Air
Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Knocklong
Parnell to Queenie - 2. Paris
[translation]
Moireen Fox
[aka Móirín Fox a Cheavasa]
The Fairy Lover
Kathleen Foyle
The Little Good Folk
The Magic Lake
Sarah Gatley
Wild Affair
above
Alfred Percival Graves
Mor Of Cloyne
The Fairy Host
The Song of the Ghost
Eamon Grennan
Itinerary
Mockingbird At Winter Solstice
Snowbird
To Grasp The Nettle
Stephen Lucius Gwynn
The Woman Of Beare
Francis Hackett
Sea Dawn
Anne Hartigan
Brazen Image
Michael Hartnett
A Farewell to English
Death Of An Irishwoman
Marban, A Hermit, Speaks
above
Seamus Heaney
A Brigid’s Girdle
A Call
A Coat
Bogland
Casualty
Death of a Naturalist
Digging
Doubletake
From: Glanmore Sonnets (for Ann Saddlemeyer) - X.
In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge
In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984
Lightenings VIII
Mid-Term Break
Mossbawn - 1. Sunlight
Mossbawn - 2. The Seed Cutters
Mother of the Groom
Personal Helicon
Postscript
Punishment
Remembering Malibu
Song
Sweeney's Last Poem
The Cure At Troy (extract)
The Door Was Open And The House Was Dark
The Early Purges
The Forge
The Otter
above
The Peninsula
The Rain Stick
The Skunk
The Spoonbait
The Tollund Man
The Underground
Traditions
Madge Herron
Poem for Frances Harvey
John Hewitt
The Ram's Horn
F R Higgins
Father And Son
O You Among Women
above
Eleanor Hull
The Sleep Song Of Grainne Over Dermuid
[translation]
Pearse Hutchinson
A First Time
Bright After Dark
Gaeltacht
The Song of Lies
[Amhrán na mBréag]
Wouldn’t I?
Douglas Hyde
I Shall Not Die for Thee
[translation]
Pat Ingoldsby
All You Need To Put On The Poster Nowadays
For Rita With Love
Go A Little Sane
Henry Street Mar Shompla
I Declare To God
I Just Wondered
Irish Compliment
I Think This Is The Very Best Thing That It Does
Terms of Endearment
Where Else Would You Get It
Words Of Love
Your Own Place
Thomas Caulfield Irwin
The Faerie's Child
above
Patrick Weston Joyce [
or
Robert Dwyer Joyce]
The Leprehaun
Patrick Kavanagh
A Christmas Childhood
A View of God & The Devil
[extract]
Epic
Hilda
In Memory of My Mother
Innocence
Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin, 'Erected to the Memory of Mrs Dermot O'Brian'
Memory of my Father
Peace
Poplar Memory
Raglan Road
Spraying the Potatoes
Summer
The Girl in The Lending Library
The Ploughman
The Stone of the Tourist
Tinker's Wife
To A Blackbird
above
William G Kelly
Wonderful Poppies of Flanders
Brendan Kennelly
Begin
Islandman
The Good
The Prodigal Son
Thomas Kinsella
Another September
Butcher's Dozen
Death of a Queen
I Will Not Die For You
[translation]
Francis Ledwidge
A Little Boy in the Morning
Lament for Thomas MacDonagh
The Lost Ones
The Shadow People
above
Michael Longley
Aftermath
A Headstone
Carrigskeewaun
Detour
Dreams
Emily Dickinson
Ghost Town
Peace
Rune
Swans Mating
The Housewife's Testament
The Island
The Linen Industry
Wounds
Donagh MacDonagh
A Warning To Conquerers
Dublin Made Me
Patrick MacDonogh
No Mean City
She Walked Unaware
above
Patrick MacGill
Fairy Workers
If We Forget The Fairies
(To Margaret)
Margaret MacKinnon
Folk Tale
Louis MacNeice
Babel
Dublin
Elegy for Minor Poets
Neutrality
Prayer Before Birth
Snow
The Libertine
Western Landscape
above
Derek Mahon
Achill
Canadian Pacific
Homecoming
In Carradore Churchyard
Preface to a Love Poem
The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush
James Clarence Mangan
A Lamentation for the death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry, who was killed in Flanders, 1642.
Dark Rosaleen
The Fairies’ Passage
Peter McDonald
Peacetime
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
The Celts
Medbh McGuckian
Open Rose
The Flower Master
Ylang-Ylang
Máighréad Medbh
Black Peadar
Céili
above
Paula Meehan
Child Burial
Dharmakaya (for Thom McGinty)
Grandmother, Gesture
Insomnia
Laburnum
Man Sleeping
Mrs Sweeney
Mysteries of the Home: 1. Well
Mysteries of the Home: 2. Queen
Mysteries of the Home: 3. Hermit
Mysteries of the Home: 4. King
Mysteries of the Home: 5. Seed
Pillow Talk
The Pattern
The Standing Army
The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks
'When you left the city you carried...'
Zugswang
John Montague
A Grafted Tongue
All Legendary Obstacles
An Ulster Prophesy
Blessing
Bog Royal
Cave
Child
Colmcille
Country Matters
For the Hill Mother
Irish Street Scene, With Lovers
L’Adieu
Liadan Laments Cuirithir
Life Class
Return
The First Invasion of Ireland
The Hunt
The Same Gesture
The Well-Beloved
Thomas Moore
The Harp that Once Through Tara’s Halls
The Song Of Fionnuala
above
Paul Muldoon
Affairs of State
Cider
Cuba
Our Lady of Ardboe
The Avenue
Richard Murphy
A Nest In A Wall
Rosroe, 1955
Stormpetrel
The Battle of Aughrim
[extract]
Margaret O'Beirne
Broken Silence
Surplus Population 1
Surplus Population 2
above
Peggy O'Brien
Master And Servant
Frank O'Connor
I Shall Not Die
[translation]
Gofraidh Fionn O'Dalaigh
Under Sorrow's Sign
Bernard O'Donoghue
A Nun Takes The Veil
John O'Donohue
The Secret Of Thereness
Sean O'Faolain
The Heavenly Banquet - Ascribed to Saint Brigid of Ireland
above
Mahon O'Heffernan
(Mathghamhain Ó Hifearnáin)
My Son, Forsake Your Art
(
A mhic ná meabhraigh éigse)
[English translation only]
Mary O'Malley
Irish
The Cave
John Boyle O'Reilly
The Infinite
A White Rose
Frank Ormsby
Some Spring Moons, North Circular Road
Mícheál Ó Siadhail
Welcome
Seumas O'Sullivan
The Half Door
(Dark eyes, wonderful, strange and dear)
The Others
The Sedges
(I whispered my great sorrow)
Arthur (William Edgar) O'Shaughnessy
Ode
above
Evangeline Paterson
Wife to Husband
Tom Paulin
Pot Burial
Pádraic H Pearse
Little Lad of the Tricks
The Rebel
Edward John Plunkett (Lord Dunsany)
The Fairy Child
Anthony Raftery
(
Antaine Ó Raifteirí)
Brídín Vesey
William Reeves & Kuno Meyer
Columcille's Greeting to Ireland
[
translation
]
above
W R Rogers
Lent
Aidan Rooney-Céspedes
Retro Creation
T W Rolleston
Cois na Teineadh
The Dead at Clonmacnoise
The Spell-Struck
Carol Rumens
Tea on the 5th of July
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Here's To The Maiden Of Bashful Fifteen
The Geranium
Thomas Sheridan
The Ghosts of Omagh
above
James Simmons
Janice
One of the Boys
The Pleasant Joys of Brotherhood
Pete St John
The Fields of Athenry
James Stephens
Nora Críona
The Coolun
The Shell
The Watcher
What Tomas An Buile Said In a Pub
L.A.G. Strong
The Brewer's Man
above
J M Synge
Danny
It Is A Month
Prelude
The Passing of the Shee
Samuel Thompson
To A Hedgehog
John Todhunter
Song
(O Mighty, Melancholy Wind)
Edward Walsh
The Fairy Nurse
Jane Francesca Wilde [Speranza]
The Famine Year (The Stricken Land)
The Itinerant Singing Girl
Oscar Wilde
Impressions I. Les Silhouettes
Sonnet to Liberty
Windele, John
Cusheen Loo
above
William Butler Yeats
A Cradle Song
A Drinking Song
A Faery Song
A Lover's Quarrel among the Fairies
A Man Young And Old
A Prayer for my Daughter
Before The World Was Made
Coole Park And Ballylee
Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop
Easter 1916
Here My Books Go
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
In Memory Of Eva Gore-Booth And Con Markiewicz
Into The Twilight
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
No Second Troy
Sailing To Byzantium
September 1913
Supernatural Songs
The Ballad of Wandering Aengus
The Fisherman
The Folly of Being Comforted
The Harp of Aengus
The Hosting of the Sidhe
The Host Of The Air
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart
The Second Coming
The Song of the Old Mother
The Stolen Child
The Wild Old Wicked Man
The Wild Swans at Coole
To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no
To A Wealthy Man
Under Ben Bulben
Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation
When You Are Old
Ella Young
The Faery Ride
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K. E. Dennis
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