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/></a><figcaption>Medbh McGuckian</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Medbh McGuckian</b> (born as <b>Maeve McCaughan</b> on 12 August 1950) is a poet from <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Medbh_McGuckian&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">North Belfast</a>. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast.<sup id="cite_ref-gonzales_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gonzales-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was educated at Holy Family Primary School and <a href="/wiki/Dominican_College,_Fortwilliam" title="Dominican College, Fortwilliam">Dominican College, Fortwilliam</a> and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972 and a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">Master of Arts</a> degree in 1974 at <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_University_Belfast" title="Queen's University Belfast">Queen's University Belfast</a>. Maeve McCaughan adopted the Irish spelling of her name, Medbh, when her university teacher, <a href="/wiki/Seamus_Heaney" title="Seamus Heaney">Seamus Heaney</a>, wrote her name that way when signing books to her.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She married a teacher and poet, John McGuckian, in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-gonzales_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gonzales-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She has worked as a teacher in her native Belfast at <a href="/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_College,_Knock" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Patrick's College, Knock">St. Patrick's College, Knock</a> and an editor and was the first female Writer in Residence at <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_University_Belfast" title="Queen's University Belfast">Queen's University Belfast</a> (1985–1988).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She spent part of a term appointed as visiting poet and instructor in creative writing at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a> (1991). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Work">Work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Medbh_McGuckian&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>McGuckian's first published poems appeared in two pamphlets, <i>Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems</i> and <i>Portrait of Joanna</i>, in 1980, the year in which she received an <a href="/wiki/Eric_Gregory_Award" title="Eric Gregory Award">Eric Gregory Award</a>. In 1981 she co-published <i>Trio Poetry 2</i> with fellow poets <a href="/w/index.php?title=Damian_Gorman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Damian Gorman (page does not exist)">Damian Gorman</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Marshall_(poet)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Douglas Marshall (poet) (page does not exist)">Douglas Marshall (poet)</a>, and in 1989 she collaborated with <a href="/wiki/Nuala_Archer" title="Nuala Archer">Nuala Archer</a> on <i>Two Women, Two Shores</i>. Medbh McGuckian's first major collection, <i>The Flower Master</i> (1982), which explores post-natal breakdown, was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Rooney_Prize_for_Irish_Literature" title="Rooney Prize for Irish Literature">Rooney Prize for Irish Literature</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Arts_Council_(Ireland)" title="Arts Council (Ireland)">Arts Council (Ireland)</a> award (both 1982) and an <a href="/wiki/Alice_Hunt_Bartlett_Prize" title="Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize">Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize</a> (1983). She is also the winner of the 1989 <a href="/wiki/Cheltenham_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheltenham Prize">Cheltenham Prize</a> for her collection <i>On Ballycastle Beach</i> (<a href="/wiki/Wake_Forest_University_Press" title="Wake Forest University Press">Wake Forest University Press</a>). </p><p>Medbh McGuckian has edited an anthology, <i>The Big Striped Golfing Umbrella: Poems by Young People from Northern Ireland</i> (1985) for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, written a study of the car in the poetry of Seamus Heaney, entitled <i>Horsepower Pass By!</i> (1999), and has translated into English (with <a href="/wiki/Eil%C3%A9an_N%C3%AD_Chuillean%C3%A1in" title="Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin">Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin</a>) <i>The Water Horse</i> (1999), a selection of poems in Irish by <a href="/wiki/Nuala_N%C3%AD_Dhomhnaill" title="Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill">Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill</a>. A volume of <i>Selected Poems: 1978–1994</i> was published in 1997, and among her latest collections are <i>The Book of the Angel</i> (2004) <i>The Currach Requires No Harbours</i> (2007), and <i>My Love Has Fared Inland</i> (2008). </p><p>Recent<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (June 2024)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> criticism of McGuckian has pointed to her extensive use of unacknowledged source material, from Russian poetry and elsewhere <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, a discovery that may have motivated her decision to name (on the acknowledgements page) the primary source for her collection, <i>The Currach Requires No Harbour</i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This work includes a poem inspired by the lives of the <a href="/wiki/Wrens_of_the_Curragh" title="Wrens of the Curragh">Wrens of the Curragh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was awarded the 2002 <a href="/wiki/Forward_Poetry_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Forward Poetry Prize">Forward Poetry Prize</a> (Best Single Poem) for her poem "She is in the Past, She Has This Grace". She has been shortlisted twice for the <a href="/wiki/Poetry_Now_Award" title="Poetry Now Award">Poetry Now Award</a> for her collection, <i>The Book of the Angel</i>, in 2005, and for <i>The Currach Requires No Harbour</i>, in 2007. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Medbh_McGuckian&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry_collections">Poetry collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Medbh_McGuckian&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Poetry collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems</i> (chapbook), Interim Press, 1980</li> <li><i>Portrait of Joanne</i> (chapbook), Ulsterman, 1980</li> <li>(With Damian Gorman and Douglas Marshall) <i>Trio Poetry</i>, <a href="/wiki/Blackstaff_Press" title="Blackstaff Press">Blackstaff Press</a>, 1981</li> <li><i>The Flower Master</i>, Oxford University Press, 1982, reprinted as The Flower Master and Other Poems, Gallery Press (County Meath), 1993</li> <li><i>The Greenhouse</i>, Steane, 1983</li> <li><i>Venus and the Rain</i>, Oxford University Press, 1984</li> <li><i>On Ballycastle Beach</i>, Oxford University Press, 1988, reprinted, Gallery Books, 1995</li> <li>(With Nuala Archer) <i>Two Women, Two Shores</i>, New Poets, 1989</li> <li><i>Marconi's Cottage</i>, <a href="/wiki/Gallery_Press" title="Gallery Press">Gallery Press</a> (County Meath), 1991</li> <li><i>Captain Lavender</i>, Wake Forest University Press (Winston-Salem, NC), 1995</li> <li><i>Selected Poems, 1978–1994</i>, Gallery Press (County Meath), 1997</li> <li><i>Shemalier</i>, Wake Forest University Press (Winston-Salem, NC), 1998</li> <li><i>Drawing Ballerinas</i>, Gallery Press (County Meath), 2001</li> <li><i>The Face of the Earth</i>, Gallery Press (County Meath), 2002</li> <li><i>Had I A Thousand Lives</i>, Gallery Press (County Meath), 2003</li> <li><i>The Book of the Angel</i>, Gallery Press (County Meath), 2004</li> <li><i>My Love Has Fared Inland</i>, Gallery Press (County Meath), 2008</li> <li><i>The Currach Requires No Harbours</i>, Wake Forest University Press (Winston-Salem, NC), 2010</li> <li><i>The High Caul Cap</i>, Gallery Press (County Meath), 2012</li> <li><i>Blaris Moor</i>, Gallery Press (County Meath), 2015</li> <li><i>Love, The Magician</i>, Arlen House (County Dublin), 2018</li> <li><i>Marine Cloud Brightening</i>, Gallery Press (County Meath), 2019</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_works">Other works</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Medbh_McGuckian&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Other works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>(Editor) <i>The Big Striped Golfing Umbrella: Poems by Young People from Northern Ireland</i>, illustrated by Anne Carlisle, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast, 1985</li> <li><i>Horsepower Pass By! A Study of the Car in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney</i>, University of Ulster, Cranagh Press, Coleraine, 1999</li> <li>(Translator, with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin) <i>The Water Horse: Poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill</i>, Gallery Press, 1999</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Medbh_McGuckian&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-gonzales-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-gonzales_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gonzales_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=quocyNYLbLcC&dq=Medbh+McGuckian+mccaughan&pg=PA200">Irish women writers: an A-to-Z guide by Alexander G. Gonzalez</a>, p. 200. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT, 2006. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-313-32883-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-313-32883-8">0-313-32883-8</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_4_49/ai_n6130023/pg_16/">Both flower and flower gatherer: Medbh McGuckian's The Flower Master and H.D.'s Sea Garden</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hofstra.edu/academics/colleges/hclas/engl/engl_tcl.html"><i>Twentieth Century Literature</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111105160353/http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Colleges/Hclas/ENGL/engl_tcl.html">Archived</a> 5 November 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Winter, 2003 by Lesley Wheeler.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPoets" class="citation web cs1">Poets, Academy of American. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://poets.org/poet/medbh-mcguckian">"About Medbh McGuckian | Academy of American Poets"</a>. <i>poets.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 June</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=poets.org&rft.atitle=About+Medbh+McGuckian+%7C+Academy+of+American+Poets&rft.aulast=Poets&rft.aufirst=Academy+of+American&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpoets.org%2Fpoet%2Fmedbh-mcguckian&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMedbh+McGuckian" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFClark2008" class="citation journal cs1">Clark, Heather (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/40347512">"Review of The Currach Requires No Harbours"</a>. <i>Harvard Review</i> (35): 223–226. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1077-2901">1077-2901</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40347512">40347512</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Harvard+Review&rft.atitle=Review+of+The+Currach+Requires+No+Harbours&rft.issue=35&rft.pages=223-226&rft.date=2008&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F40347512%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.issn=1077-2901&rft.aulast=Clark&rft.aufirst=Heather&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F40347512&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMedbh+McGuckian" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Medbh_McGuckian&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/McGuckian.html">Profile. Emory University</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120310184043/http://wfupress.wfu.edu/authors/medbh_mcguckian.php">Medbh McGuckian's page at Wake Forest University Press</a></li> <li>Interview with <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/McGuckian%20interview.htm"><i>The Argotist</i></a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.qualm.co.uk/mainpr.html#mmcguckian">Medbh McGuckian poems</a> in <i>Qualm</i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wfu.edu/wfupress">Wake Forest University Press</a> North American publisher of McGuckian</li> <li>Videos of readings and facsimiles of manuscripts in the Irish Poetry Reading Collection <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://digital.ucd.ie/?q=%22McGuckian%2C+Medbh%22&start=1&rows=20">UCD Digital Library</a>, University College Dublin</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rose.library.emory.edu/">Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library</a>, Emory University: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zn19">Medbh McGuckian papers, 1964-2006</a></li> <li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/article/view/2866">Wrapping Our Heads Around Copies of this Book: To Medbh McGuckian at Seventy</a></i>. Daniela Theinová, ed. 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<li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Dorcey" title="Mary Dorcey">Mary Dorcey</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Enright" title="Anne Enright">Anne Enright</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Hamilton_(writer)" title="Hugo Hamilton (writer)">Hugo Hamilton</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gerard_Fanning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerard Fanning (page does not exist)">Gerard Fanning</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colum_McCann" title="Colum McCann">Colum McCann</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_MacCann" title="Philip MacCann">Philip MacCann</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_McCormack_(writer)" title="Mike McCormack (writer)">Mike McCormack</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Haverty" title="Anne Haverty">Anne Haverty</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Wheatley_(poet)" title="David Wheatley (poet)">David Wheatley</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_O%27Rowe" title="Mark O'Rowe">Mark O'Rowe</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claire_Keegan" title="Claire Keegan">Claire Keegan</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Ridgway" title="Keith Ridgway">Keith Ridgway</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caitr%C3%ADona_O%27Reilly" class="mw-redirect" title="Caitríona O'Reilly">Caitríona O'Reilly</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Brien_(playwright)" title="Eugene O'Brien (playwright)">Eugene O'Brien</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claire_Kilroy" title="Claire Kilroy">Claire Kilroy</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nick_Laird" title="Nick Laird">Nick Laird</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_%C3%93_Ceallaigh" title="Philip Ó Ceallaigh">Philip Ó Ceallaigh</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Barry_(writer)" title="Kevin Barry (writer)">Kevin Barry</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leontia_Flynn" title="Leontia Flynn">Leontia Flynn</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Power" title="Kevin Power">Kevin Power</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leanne_O%27Sullivan" title="Leanne O'Sullivan">Leanne O'Sullivan</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucy_Caldwell" title="Lucy Caldwell">Lucy Caldwell</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Harris" title="Nancy Harris">Nancy Harris</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ciar%C3%A1n_Collins" title="Ciarán Collins">Ciarán Collins</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Barrett_(author)" title="Colin Barrett (author)">Colin Barrett</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sara_Baume" title="Sara Baume">Sara Baume</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doireann_N%C3%AD_Ghr%C3%ADofa" title="Doireann Ní Ghríofa">Doireann Ní Ghríofa</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Reapy" title="Elizabeth Reapy">Elizabeth Reapy</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caitriona_Lally" title="Caitriona Lally">Caitriona Lally</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_O%27Connell_(writer)" title="Mark O'Connell (writer)">Mark O'Connell</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Sexton" title="Stephen Sexton">Stephen Sexton</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niamh_Campbell" title="Niamh Campbell">Niamh Campbell</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_Hewitt" title="Seán Hewitt">Seán Hewitt</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Magee_(writer)" title="Michael Magee (writer)">Michael Magee</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Book.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Book.svg/50px-Book.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="58" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Book.svg/75px-Book.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Book.svg/100px-Book.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="448" data-file-height="524" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dan_M._Rooney" title="Dan M. 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style="width:1%">Poets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bardic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mael_%C3%8Dsu_Ua_Brolch%C3%A1in" title="Mael Ísu Ua Brolcháin">Mael Ísu Ua Brolcháin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muircheartach_%C3%93_Cobhthaigh" title="Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh">Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilla_Mo_Dutu_%C3%9Aa_Caiside" title="Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside">Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baothghalach_M%C3%B3r_Mac_Aodhag%C3%A1in" title="Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin">Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giolla_Brighde_Mac_Con_Midhe" title="Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe">Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gofraidh_Fionn_%C3%93_D%C3%A1laigh" title="Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh">Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flann_mac_Lon%C3%A1in" title="Flann mac Lonáin">Flann mac Lonáin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donnchadh_M%C3%B3r_%C3%93_D%C3%A1laigh" title="Donnchadh Mór Ó Dálaigh">Donnchadh Mór Ó Dálaigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lochlann_%C3%93g_%C3%93_D%C3%A1laigh" title="Lochlann Óg Ó Dálaigh">Lochlann Óg Ó Dálaigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fear_Flatha_%C3%93_Gn%C3%ADmh" title="Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh">Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mathghamhain_%C3%93_hIfearn%C3%A1in" title="Mathghamhain Ó hIfearnáin">Mathghamhain Ó hIfearnáin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cormac_Mac_Con_Midhe" title="Cormac Mac Con Midhe">Cormac Mac Con Midhe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eoghan_Carrach_%C3%93_Siadhail" title="Eoghan Carrach Ó Siadhail">Eoghan Carrach Ó Siadhail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fear_Feasa_%C3%93%27n_Ch%C3%A1inte" title="Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte">Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tadhg_Olltach_%C3%93_an_Ch%C3%A1inte" title="Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte">Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eochaidh_%C3%93_h%C3%89oghusa" title="Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa">Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proinsias_%C3%93_Doibhlin" title="Proinsias Ó Doibhlin">Proinsias Ó Doibhlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarlach_Rua_Mac_D%C3%B3naill" title="Tarlach Rua Mac Dónaill">Tarlach Rua Mac Dónaill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilla_C%C3%B3m%C3%A1in_mac_Gilla_Samthainde" title="Gilla Cómáin mac Gilla Samthainde">Gilla Cómáin mac Gilla Samthainde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tadhg_Dall_%C3%93_h%C3%9Aig%C3%ADnn" class="mw-redirect" title="Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn">Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nin%C3%ADne_%C3%89ces" title="Niníne Éces">Niníne Éces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colm%C3%A1n_of_Cloyne" title="Colmán of Cloyne">Colmán of Cloyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cin%C3%A1ed_ua_hArtac%C3%A1in" title="Cináed ua hArtacáin">Cináed ua hArtacáin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muireadhach_Albanach_%C3%93_D%C3%A1laigh" title="Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh">Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cearbhall_%C3%93g_%C3%93_D%C3%A1laigh" title="Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh">Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1eleoin_B%C3%B3dur_%C3%93_Maolconaire" title="Máeleoin Bódur Ó Maolconaire">Máeleoin Bódur Ó Maolconaire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diarmaid_Mac_an_Bhaird" title="Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird">Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C3%BA_Choigcr%C3%ADche_%C3%93_Cl%C3%A9irigh" title="Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh">Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dall%C3%A1n_Forgaill" title="Dallán Forgaill">Dallán Forgaill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%93engus_of_Tallaght" title="Óengus of Tallaght">Óengus of Tallaght</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sedulius_Scottus" title="Sedulius Scottus">Sedulius Scottus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dungal_of_Bobbio" title="Dungal of Bobbio">Saint Dungal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maol_Sheachluinn_na_n-Uirsg%C3%A9al_%C3%93_h%C3%9Aig%C3%ADnn" class="mw-redirect" title="Maol Sheachluinn na n-Uirsgéal Ó hÚigínn">Maol Sheachluinn na n-Uirsgéal Ó hÚigínn</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_%C3%93_Duibhgeannain&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip Ó Duibhgeannain (page does not exist)">Philip Ó Duibhgeannain</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">15th/16th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_%C3%93_Cobhthaigh" title="Tomás Ó Cobhthaigh">Tomás Ó Cobhthaigh</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">17th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1ibh%C3%AD_%C3%93_Bruadair" title="Dáibhí Ó Bruadair">Dáibhí Ó Bruadair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piaras_Feirit%C3%A9ar" title="Piaras Feiritéar">Piaras Feiritéar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donnchadh_Mac_an_Caoilfhiaclaigh" title="Donnchadh Mac an Caoilfhiaclaigh">Donnchadh Mac an Caoilfhiaclaigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aog%C3%A1n_%C3%93_Rathaille" title="Aogán Ó Rathaille">Aogán Ó Rathaille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9afraidh_%C3%93_Donnchadha" title="Séafraidh Ó Donnchadha">Séafraidh Ó Donnchadha an Ghleanna</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">18th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aog%C3%A1n_%C3%93_Rathaille" title="Aogán Ó Rathaille">Aogán Ó Rathaille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Merriman" title="Brian Merriman">Brian Merriman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith" title="Oliver Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hewitt_(poet)" title="John Hewitt (poet)">John Hewitt</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">19th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Moore" title="Thomas Moore">Thomas Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Gavan_Duffy" title="Charles Gavan Duffy">Charles Gavan Duffy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Clarence_Mangan" title="James Clarence Mangan">James Clarence Mangan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Ferguson" title="Samuel Ferguson">Samuel Ferguson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Allingham" title="William Allingham">William Allingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hyde" title="Douglas Hyde">Douglas Hyde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Henry_(poet)" title="James Henry (poet)">James Henry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine_%C3%93_Raifteiri" title="Antoine Ó Raifteiri">Antoine Ó Raifteiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aeneas_Coffey" title="Aeneas Coffey">Aeneas Coffey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Dwyer_Joyce" title="Robert Dwyer Joyce">Robert Dwyer Joyce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Davis_(Young_Irelander)" title="Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)">Thomas Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Wilde" title="Jane Wilde">Speranza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katharine_Tynan" title="Katharine Tynan">Katharine Tynan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Walsh_(poet)" title="Edward Walsh (poet)">Edward Walsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">20th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Pearse" title="Patrick Pearse">Patrick Pearse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Plunkett" title="Joseph Plunkett">Joseph Plunkett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_MacDonagh" title="Thomas MacDonagh">Thomas MacDonagh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Ledwidge" title="Francis Ledwidge">Francis Ledwidge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padraic_Colum" title="Padraic Colum">Padraic Colum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F._R._Higgins" title="F. R. Higgins">F. R. Higgins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Clarke_(poet)" title="Austin Clarke (poet)">Austin Clarke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Beckett" title="Samuel Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Coffey" title="Brian Coffey">Brian Coffey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denis_Devlin" title="Denis Devlin">Denis Devlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_MacGreevy" title="Thomas MacGreevy">Thomas MacGreevy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blanaid_Salkeld" title="Blanaid Salkeld">Blanaid Salkeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Devenport_O%27Neill" title="Mary Devenport O'Neill">Mary Devenport O'Neill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Kavanagh" title="Patrick Kavanagh">Patrick Kavanagh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hewitt_(poet)" title="John Hewitt (poet)">John Hewitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_MacNeice" title="Louis MacNeice">Louis MacNeice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1irt%C3%ADn_%C3%93_Dire%C3%A1in" title="Máirtín Ó Direáin">Máirtín Ó Direáin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_%C3%93_R%C3%ADord%C3%A1in" title="Seán Ó Ríordáin">Seán Ó Ríordáin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1ire_Mhac_an_tSaoi" title="Máire Mhac an tSaoi">Máire Mhac an tSaoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Hartnett" title="Michael Hartnett">Michael Hartnett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Rosenstock" title="Gabriel Rosenstock">Gabriel Rosenstock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuala_N%C3%AD_Dhomhnaill" title="Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill">Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miche%C3%A1l_Mac_Liamm%C3%B3ir" title="Micheál Mac Liammóir">Micheál Mac Liammóir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Greacen" title="Robert Greacen">Robert Greacen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_McFadden" title="Roy McFadden">Roy McFadden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padraic_Fiacc" title="Padraic Fiacc">Padraic Fiacc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Montague_(poet)" title="John Montague (poet)">John Montague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Longley" title="Michael Longley">Michael Longley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derek_Mahon" title="Derek Mahon">Derek Mahon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seamus_Heaney" title="Seamus Heaney">Seamus Heaney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Muldoon" title="Paul Muldoon">Paul Muldoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Kinsella" title="Thomas Kinsella">Thomas Kinsella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Smith_(poet)" title="Michael Smith (poet)">Michael Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Joyce" title="Trevor Joyce">Trevor Joyce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Squires" title="Geoffrey Squires">Geoffrey Squires</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustus_Young" title="Augustus Young">Augustus Young</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randolph_Healy" title="Randolph Healy">Randolph Healy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jordan_(poet)" title="John Jordan (poet)">John Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Durcan" title="Paul Durcan">Paul Durcan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Payne" title="Basil Payne">Basil Payne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eoghan_%C3%93_Tuairisc" title="Eoghan Ó Tuairisc">Eoghan Ó Tuairisc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Galvin" title="Patrick Galvin">Patrick Galvin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cathal_%C3%93_Searcaigh" title="Cathal Ó Searcaigh">Cathal Ó Searcaigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Sands" title="Bobby Sands">Bobby Sands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nora_Tynan_O%27Mahony" title="Nora Tynan O'Mahony">Nora Tynan O'Mahony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rita_Ann_Higgins" title="Rita Ann Higgins">Rita Ann Higgins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eavan_Boland" title="Eavan Boland">Eavan Boland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eil%C3%A9an_N%C3%AD_Chuillean%C3%A1in" title="Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin">Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Medbh McGuckian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paula_Meehan" title="Paula Meehan">Paula Meehan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_O%27Driscoll" title="Dennis O'Driscoll">Dennis O'Driscoll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_Dunne_(poet)" title="Seán Dunne (poet)">Seán Dunne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Cronin" title="Anthony Cronin">Anthony Cronin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._F._Marshall" class="mw-redirect" title="W. F. Marshall">W. F. Marshall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._B._Yeats" title="W. B. Yeats">W. B. Yeats</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">21st century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_McCarthy_(poet)" title="Thomas McCarthy (poet)">Thomas McCarthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ennis_(poet)" title="John Ennis (poet)">John Ennis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Boran" title="Pat Boran">Pat Boran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mair%C3%A9ad_Byrne" title="Mairéad Byrne">Mairéad Byrne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ciaran_Carson" title="Ciaran Carson">Ciarán Carson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Chapman" title="Patrick Chapman">Patrick Chapman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Clifton_(poet)" title="Harry Clifton (poet)">Harry Clifton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Curtis_(Irish_poet)" title="Tony Curtis (Irish poet)">Tony Curtis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A1draig_J._Daly" title="Pádraig J. Daly">Pádraig J. Daly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Dawe" title="Gerald Dawe">Gerald Dawe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Delanty" title="Greg Delanty">Greg Delanty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leontia_Flynn" title="Leontia Flynn">Leontia Flynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eamon_Grennan" title="Eamon Grennan">Eamon Grennan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vona_Groarke" title="Vona Groarke">Vona Groarke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seamus_Heaney" title="Seamus Heaney">Seamus Heaney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Ingoldsby" title="Pat Ingoldsby">Pat Ingoldsby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Joyce" title="Trevor Joyce">Trevor Joyce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brendan_Kennelly" title="Brendan Kennelly">Brendan Kennelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_McFadden_(poet)" title="Hugh McFadden (poet)">Hugh McFadden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_Morrissey" title="Sinéad Morrissey">Sinéad Morrissey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerry_Murphy_(poet)" title="Gerry Murphy (poet)">Gerry Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_O%27Donoghue" title="Bernard O'Donoghue">Bernard O'Donoghue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conor_O%27Callaghan_(poet)" title="Conor O'Callaghan (poet)">Conor O'Callaghan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caitriona_O%27Reilly" title="Caitriona O'Reilly">Caitriona O'Reilly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justin_Quinn" title="Justin Quinn">Justin Quinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Riordan" title="Maurice Riordan">Maurice Riordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Scully" title="Maurice Scully">Maurice Scully</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wall_(writer)" title="William Wall (writer)">William Wall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Walsh_(poet)" title="Catherine Walsh (poet)">Catherine Walsh</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Anthologies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Faber_Book_of_Irish_Verse" title="Faber Book of Irish Verse">Faber Book of Irish Verse</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Epics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wanderings_of_Oisin" title="The Wanderings of Oisin">The Wanderings of Oisin</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bardic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timna_Catha%C3%ADr_M%C3%A1ir_Caithr%C3%A9im_Cellaig&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Timna Cathaír Máir Caithréim Cellaig (page does not exist)">Timna Cathaír Máir Caithréim Cellaig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_d%C3%ADs_cuirthear_cl%C3%BA_Laighean" title="Le dís cuirthear clú Laighean">Le dís cuirthear clú Laighean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Is_acher_in_ga%C3%ADth_in-nocht..." class="mw-redirect" title="Is acher in gaíth in-nocht...">Is acher in gaíth in-nocht...</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Is_tr%C3%BAag_in_ces_i_mbiam" title="Is trúag in ces i mbiam">Is trúag in ces i mbiam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sen_dollotar_Ulaid_..." class="mw-redirect" title="Sen dollotar Ulaid ...">Sen dollotar Ulaid ...</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/An_D%C3%ADbirt_go_Connachta" title="An Díbirt go Connachta">An Díbirt go Connachta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foraire_Uladh_ar_Aodh" title="Foraire Uladh ar Aodh">Foraire Uladh ar Aodh</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_aonmhic_D%C3%A9_do_c%C3%A9asadh_thr%C3%ADnn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A aonmhic Dé do céasadh thrínn (page does not exist)">A aonmhic Dé do céasadh thrínn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_theachtaire_tig_%C3%B3n_R%C3%B3imh" title="A theachtaire tig ón Róimh">A theachtaire tig ón Róimh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/An_sluagh_sidhe_so_i_nEamhuin%3F" title="An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin?">An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C3%B3ir_Connacht_ar_chath_Laighean" title="Cóir Connacht ar chath Laighean">Cóir Connacht ar chath Laighean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dia_libh_a_laochruidh_Gaoidhiol" title="Dia libh a laochruidh Gaoidhiol">Dia libh a laochruidh Gaoidhiol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pangur_B%C3%A1n" title="Pangur Bán">Pangur Bán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liamuin" title="Liamuin">Liamuin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buile_Shuibhne" title="Buile Shuibhne">Buile Shuibhne</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Prophecy_of_Berch%C3%A1n" title="The Prophecy of Berchán">The Prophecy of Berchán</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bean_Torrach,_fa_Tuar_Broide" title="Bean Torrach, fa Tuar Broide">Bean Torrach, fa Tuar Broide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuireamh_na_h%C3%89ireann" title="Tuireamh na hÉireann">Tuireamh na hÉireann</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">18th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Traveller_(poem)" title="The Traveller (poem)">The Traveller</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Suantra%C3%AD_d%C3%A1_Mhac_Tabhartha" title="Suantraí dá Mhac Tabhartha">Suantraí dá Mhac Tabhartha</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mn%C3%A1_na_h%C3%89ireann" title="Mná na hÉireann">Mná na hÉireann</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">19th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Tone%27s_Grave" title="Tone's Grave">Tone's Grave</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Wind_That_Shakes_the_Barley" title="The Wind That Shakes the Barley">The Wind That Shakes the Barley</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Contemporary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love_Songs_of_Connacht&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Love Songs of Connacht (page does not exist)">Love Songs of Connacht</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hi_Uncle_Sam" title="Hi Uncle Sam">Hi Uncle Sam</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Meeting_The_British" title="Meeting The British">Meeting The British</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Horse_Latitudes_(poetry_collection)" title="Horse Latitudes (poetry collection)">Horse Latitudes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sweeney_Astray" title="Sweeney Astray">Sweeney Astray</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Prayer_Before_Birth" title="Prayer Before Birth">Prayer Before Birth</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/D-Day_(poem)" class="mw-redirect" title="D-Day (poem)">D-Day</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organisations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Poetry_Ireland" title="Poetry Ireland">Poetry Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seamus_Heaney_Centre" title="Seamus Heaney Centre">Seamus Heaney Centre</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Publishers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 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(magazine)">Cyphers</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dublin_Magazine" title="The Dublin Magazine">The Dublin Magazine</a></i> (defunct)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Icarus_(magazine)" title="Icarus (magazine)">Icarus (magazine)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lace_Curtain" title="The Lace Curtain">The Lace Curtain</a></i> (defunct)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Poetry_Ireland_Review" title="Poetry Ireland Review">Poetry Ireland Review</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Stinging_Fly" title="The Stinging Fly">The Stinging Fly</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Honest_Ulsterman" title="The Honest Ulsterman">The Honest Ulsterman</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C%C3%BAirt_International_Festival_of_Literature" title="Cúirt International Festival of Literature">Cúirt International Festival of Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SoundEye_Festival" title="SoundEye Festival">SoundEye Festival</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Awards / prizes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Kavanagh_Poetry_Award" title="Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award">Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poetry_Now_Award" title="Poetry Now Award">Poetry Now Award</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox authority-control" 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