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Famous Irish Poets - Famous Poets from Ireland

This famous Irish poets and poems section is an educational list of poets and a source of biographical information and poetry of renown Irish poets. Here you will find famous poets of our time and times past from Ireland.

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Wilde, Oscar - October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900
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Yeats, William Butler - June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939
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Milligan, Spike - April 16, 1918 – February 27, 2002
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Lewis, C S - November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963
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Boland, Eavan - September 1944 – Present
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Moore, Thomas - May 28, 1779 – February 25, 1852
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Joyce, James - February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941
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Kavanagh, Patrick -
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Behan, Brendan -
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Swift, Jonathan - November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745
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Heaney, Seamus -
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Burke, Edmund - 1856
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Russell, George William -
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Montague, John - b.1929
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Goldsmith, Oliver - November 10, 1730 – April 4, 1774
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Durcan, Paul -
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Tynan, Katharine -
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Smith, Michael -
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Simmons, James -
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Bardwell, Leland -
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Wilde, Jane - 1826 – 1896
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Muldoon, Paul -
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Grennan, Eamon -
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Pearse, Patrick - 1879 – 1916
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Gogarty, Oliver St. John -
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MacNeice, Louis -
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Gibbon, Monk -
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Kelly, Rita -
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Stephens, James -
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Moore, Alan -
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Brennan, Rory -
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Milligan, Alice -
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Callan, Michael Feeney -
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Bolger, Dermot -
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Kinsella, Thomas - born 1928
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Searcaigh, Cathal Ó -
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Walsh, Catherine -
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Ormsby, Frank -
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Hartnett, Michael -
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Ennis, John -
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Maude, Caitlín -
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Paor, Louis de -
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Ledwidge, Francis - 1887 – 1917
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Drennan, William -
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Mahon, Derek - born 1941
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Boran, Pat -
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Daly, Pádraig J. -
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Reavey, George -
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Plunkett, Joseph -
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Raferty, Anthony -
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Murphy, Hayden -
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Curtis, Tony -
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Browne, Frances -
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Davis, Thomas Osborne - 1814 – 1845
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Carson, Ciarán -
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Lawless, Emily -
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Liddy, James -
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Bruadair, Dáibhí Ó -
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mac Cú Brettan, Blathmac -
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Galvin, Patrick -
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Rathaille, Aogán Ó -
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Clarence Mangan, James - 1803 – 1849
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MacGill, Patrick -
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O'Sullivan, Seumas -
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Kelly, Hugh - 1739 – 1777
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Donovan, Gerard -
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MacDonagh, Thomas -
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Higgins, Rita Ann -
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Chapman, Patrick -
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Colum, Padraic -
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Paulin, Tom -
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Darley, George - 1795 – 1846
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Rudden, Adam -
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Luigdech, Beccán mac -
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Synge, John Millington -
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Woods, Macdara -
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MacDonogh, Patrick -
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Chiara, Luccreth moccu -
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Iremonger, Valentin -
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Kickham, Charles -
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Higgins, Kevin -
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Jordan, John -
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hArtucain, Cinaed Ó -
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McFadden, Hugh -
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O'Driscoll, Dennis - born 1954
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Delanty, Greg -
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Dunne, Seán -
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MacCarthy, Denis Florence -
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Healy, Randolph -
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MacFalls, Seán -
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Cunningham, John -
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Gwynn, Stephen -
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McNulty, Bernard -
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Hutchinson, Pearse -
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Boyse, Samuel -
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Chonchúir, Nuala Ní -
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Wolfe, Charles - 1791 – 1823
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McGuckian, Medbh -
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Murphy, Richard - born 1927
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Sirr, Peter -
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