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Agallamh beirte (Irish for "conversation of two people") is a form of Irish-language spoken poetry, [1] wherein two people recite a dialogue in verse, often rhyming. Tones are typically humorous and satirical. [2] It is often part of Irish-language culture events and competitions, such as Oireachtas na Gaeilge. [3] [4]
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Funny Irish sayings. As you slide down the bannister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way. There are only two kinds of people in this world: The Irish and those who wish they were.
Seán wrote both in Irish and English, but Irish was his primary language and he wrote poems in it of many kinds – Fenian poems, love poems, drinking songs, satires and religious poems. [ 4 ] In 1728 Tadhg wrote a poem in which there is a description of the members of the Ó Neachtain literary circle: twenty-six people are mentioned, mostly ...
Gerry Murphy was born in Cork City in 1952. [1] His work is witty, openly intellectual and often satirical and is "highly, self-consciously literary". [2] " Much of the most recent work displays intense absorption of the Roman classics either through direct reference or employment of the pithy epigram."
Billy Mills (born 1954) is an Irish experimental poet and the founder and co-editor, with Catherine Walsh, of the hardPressed poetry imprint and the Journal. [1] [2] [3] hardPressed publishes and distributes mainly Irish poetry "that you won't often find in your local bookshop".
In 1963, his first collection of original poems in English, Tongue Without Hands (the title a quotation from the Spanish epic El Cid), was published by Dolmen Press in Ireland. In 1967, having spent nearly ten years altogether in Spain, Hutchinson returned to Ireland, making a living as a poet and journalist writing in both Irish and English.