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Ireland is a nation of poets and scholars (and judges of good whiskey and bad women). In the Dark Ages it was Irish Jesuits who kept the light of human knowledge lit, and not even being conquered by the pasty English could keep the Irish down.
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Many of the poems included in our anthology are from a transitional period in Irish history, when the language and culture was growing ever Anglocised. A great number of the poems by the poets included below were originally written in Irish (sometimes called “Gaelic” - because some English guy thought they were speaking French - it’s the same as the Native Americans being called “Indians” because some lost Italian guy thought they had arrived in India).
Poems Written in Irish
Most of the poems in this tour are translations, and were translated either by the original author or another poet. The following is a list of poems written in Irish.
Patriots and Exiles: Irish Poets
- John Banim
- Thomas Boyd
- William A. Byrne
- Joseph Campbell
- Nancy Campbell
- Ethna Carbery
- Roger Casement
- John Keegan Casey
- Michael Cavanagh
- Austin Clarke
- Padraic Colum
- Daniel Corkery
- James H. Cousins
- John Philpot Curran
- Thomas Davis
- Thomas Dermody
- Charles Gavan Duffy
- John Eglinton
- Darrell Figgis
- Moireen Fox
- Alice Furlong
- Thomas Furlong
- Eva Gore-Booth
- Alfred Percival Graves
- Gerald Griffin
- Stephen Gwynn
- Francis Hackett
- Eleanor Hull
- John Kelly Ingram
- Lionel Johnson
- James Joyce
- Thomas Kettle
- Charles Joseph Kickham
- William Larminie
- Emily Lawless
- Francis Ledwidge
- Shane Leslie
- Winifred Letts
- Thomas MacDonagh
- Patrick MacGill
- Seumas MacManus
- Professor MacNeill
- Francis Sylvester Mahony
- Brian Merriman
- Kuno Meyer
- Alice Milligan
- Susan L. Mitchell
- Alice Mulligan
- David O’Bruaidar
- Cathal O’Bryne
- Eugene O’Curry
- Seumas O’Kelly
- Moira O’Neill
- Seumas O’Sullivan
- Fanny Parnell
- Padraic Pearse
- George Petrie
- Joseph Plunkett
- Dora Sigerson Shorter
- George Sigerson
- Hester Sigerson
- James Stephens
- Jonathan Swift
- J. M. Synge
- Katherine Tynan
- John Francis Waller
- Edward Walsh
- Charles Weeks
- Joseph Blanco White
- Oscar Wilde
- Florence M. Wilson
- William Butler Yeats
- Ella Young
Articles on Irish Poetry
- Introduction to an Anthology of Irish Verse by Padraic Colum
- More to come…
About the Tour Guide
Jough Dempsey is a poet & critic and the webmaster of Poetry X, an online poetry resource for those looking for the minstral boy. In his spare time he enjoys slinging his wild harp behind himself.
