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Famous Irish Poets - Famous Poets from Ireland

The Irish famous poets section is an educational source of information and inspiration featuring reknown Irish poets. Here you will find famous Irish Poets of our time and times past. Please let us know if we are missing a well-known Irish poet and we'll add him or her.

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Adcock, Fleur

Kareen Fleur Adcock (known as Fleur Adcock), CNZM, OBE (born 10 February 1934 in New Zealand) is a poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.. poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England
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Allingham, William

An Irish man of letters and poet.. Irish man of letters and poet
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Boland, Eavan

An Irish poet.. Irish poet
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Burke, Edmund

Irish poet, fl. 1856, whose only work was a book of poems called Musings in the Village Haunts.
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Clarence Mangan, James

James Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan (1 May 1803, Dublin - 20 June 1849) was an Irish poet.. Irish poet
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Clarke, Austin

Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in St. James, Barbados, in 1955 Clarke moved to Canada, where he attended the University of Toronto.. leading Irish poets
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Day-Lewis, Cecil

Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972) was an Anglo-Irish poet and the British Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is the father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis and documentary filmmaker and television chef Tamasin Day-Lewis.. Anglo-Irish poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1968–1972
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Drummond, William

William Henry Drummond was an Irish-born Canadian poet. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom in 1898 and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1899.. Scottish poet
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Goldsmith, Oliver

An Irish writer and physician known for his pastoral poem The Deserted Village.. Anglo-Irish writer and poet
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Granier, Mark

Mark Granier born in London, England, is an Irish poet and photographer based in Dublin, Ireland.. Irish poet and photographer
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Grennan, Eamon

. Irish poet
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Heaney, Seamus

. Irish poet playwright translator lecturer; 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Henry Drummond, William

William Henry Drummond (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet whose humorous dialect poems made him "one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world," and "one of the most widely-read and loved poets" in Canada.. Irish-born Canadian poet
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Joyce, James

. Irish novelist and poet
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Kavanagh, Patrick

. Irish poet and novelist
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Kinsella, Thomas

Thomas Kinsella (born 4 May 1928) is an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.. Irish poet translator editor and publisher
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Kudryavitsky, Anatoly

Anthony Kudryavitsky born in Moscow in 1954, better known by his pen name Anatoly Kudryavitsky (Russian ), is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet and literary translator.. Russian Irish novelist poet and literary translator
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Ledwidge, Francis

Francis Edward Ledwidge (19 August 1887 – 31 July 1917) was an Irish war poet from County Meath. Sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I.. Irish war poet
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Lewis, C S

an Irish author and scholar of mixed Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry.. novelist poet academic medievalist literary critic essayist lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast
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MacNeice, Louis

. Irish poet and playwright; of the generation of "thirties poets"
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Mahon, Derek

Derek Mahon (born 23 November 1941) is a Northern Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.. Northern Irish poet
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Milligan, Spike

. Irish comedian writer musician poet playwright soldier and actor
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Montague, John

. Irish poet
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Moore, Thomas

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death.. Irish poet singer songwriter and entertainer
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Muldoon, Paul

. Irish poet; 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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