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[22] Poetry in Irish saw a revolution beginning in the end of the 1940s with the poetry of Máirtín Ó Direáin (1910-1988), Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916-1977) and Máire Mhac an tSaoi (1922-2021). Their poetry, though retaining a sense of the tradition, continued the legacy of Pearse by introducing Modernist poetry into the Irish language.
Station Island is the sixth collection of original poetry written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated to the Northern Irish playwright Brian Friel. The collection was first published in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1984 by Faber & Faber and was then published in America by ...
The Faber Book of Irish Verse was a poetry anthology edited by John Montague and first published in 1974 by Faber and Faber. [1] Recognised as an important collection, [2] it has been described as 'the only general anthology of Irish verse in the past 30 years that has a claim to be a work of art in itself ... still the freshest introduction to the full range of Irish poetry'. [3]
On "Tuireamh na hÉireann," Vincent Morley wrote that it was "arguably one of the most important works ever written in Ireland. Composed in simple metre, easily understandable and capable of being learned by heart, this poem supplied an understanding of Irish history for the Catholic majority (monoglot speakers of Irish who could neither read nor write for the next two hundred years)."
Dairena Ní Chinnéide is an Irish poet and former broadcast journalist, interpreter and television producer. She has published 12 books of mainly bilingual poetry in Irish and one in English, titled 'deleted', published by Salmon Poetry. One of her better known poems is Jeaic ar Scoil.
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".