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  2. Irish poetry - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Brendan Kennelly - Wikipedia

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    Kennelly's poetry can be scabrous, down-to-earth, and colloquial. He avoided intellectual pretension and literary posturing, and his attitude to poetic language could be summed up in the title of one of his epic poems, "Poetry my Arse". [7] Another long (400-page) epic poem, "The Book of Judas", published in 1991, topped the Irish best-seller ...

  4. Thomas Moore - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies.His setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English.

  5. James Clarence Mangan - Wikipedia

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    James Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan (Irish: Séamus Ó Mangáin; 1 May 1803 – 20 June 1849), was an Irish poet. He freely translated works from German, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, and Irish, with his translations of Goethe gaining special interest.

  6. Osborn Bergin - Wikipedia

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    He wrote poetry in Irish and made a number of well-received translations of Old Irish love poetry. [3] He is celebrated in Brian O'Nolan's poem Binchy and Bergin and Best, originally printed in the Cruiskeen Lawn column in the Irish Times and now included in The Best of Myles.

  7. Eavan Boland - Wikipedia

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    Former Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, quoted from her poem "The Emigrant Irish" in his address to the joint houses of the US Congress in May 2008. On 15 March 2016, President Obama quoted lines from her poem " On a Thirtieth Anniversary " (from " Against Love Poetry " 2001) in his remarks at a reception in the White House to celebrate St ...

  8. James Harpur - Wikipedia

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    James Harpur (born 1956) is a British-born Irish poet who has published eight books of poetry. [1] He has won a number of awards, including the Michael Hartnett Award and the UK National Poetry Competition. [2] He has also published books of non-fiction and a novel, The Pathless Country. [3]

  9. Eithne Strong - Wikipedia

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    Eithne Strong (née O'Connell; 1923–1999) [1] was a bilingual Irish poet and writer who wrote in both Irish and English. Her first poems in Irish were published in Combhar and An Glor 1943–44 under the name Eithne Ni Chonaill.

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