Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 2003 she won both the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival and the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition. She was shortlisted for the Children's Books Ireland award for Brionglóidí & Aistir Eile (2008). She again won Duais de hÍde at Strokestown Poetry Festival in 2019 and 2020.
Rosenstock has written many books of poetry suitable for children. Here is a link to a small sample of them: Free Kids Books; Translations. March hare, 1994. Short stories from the Irish language author Pádraic Breathnach
In addition to John Hewitt, mentioned above, other important poets from Northern Ireland include Robert Greacen (1920–2008) who, with Valentin Iremonger, edited an important anthology, Contemporary Irish Poetry in 1949. Greacen was born in Derry, lived in Belfast in his youth and then in London during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
I Am The Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere edited by Lucina Jacob and Sarah Webb, illustrated by Ashwin Chacko Teen & Young Adult Book of the Yea Black and Irish: Legends, Trailblazers and Everyday Heroes by Leon Diop and Briana Fitzsimons, illustrated by Jessica Louis Sports Book of the Year The Grass Ceiling by Eimear Ryan (Irish author)
Padraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Irish Literary Revival .
"A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer.It is written to Anne, his daughter with Georgie Hyde-Lees, whom Yeats married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. [1]
Irish literature is literature written in the Irish, Latin, English and Scots (Ulster Scots) languages on the island of Ireland.The earliest recorded Irish writing dates from back in the 7th century and was produced by monks writing in both Latin and Early Irish, including religious texts, poetry and mythological tales.
The poem was first published in the Irish Monthly in December 1886. The poem was then published in a compilation of work by several Irish poets Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland in 1888 with several critics praising the poem. It was later published in his first book of poetry The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems as well as Fairy and Folk ...