Brian Coffey

Brian Coffey

male, deceased (1995)
Roman Catholic, Modernism, poet, writer, Irish, small press…Irishmodernistpoet, modernist poetry
Brian Coffey (June 8, 1905 - April 14, 1995) was an Irish poet and publisher. His work was informed by his Catholicism and by his background in...
Thomas Macgreevy

Thomas Macgreevy

male, deceased (1967)
Modernism, poet, Irish, Irishmodernistpoet, modernist poetry, from County Kerry…Irish poetry
Thomas MacGreevy was a pivotal figure in the history of Irish literary modernism. A poet, he was also director of the National Gallery of Ireland...
Denis Devlin

Denis Devlin

male, deceased (1959)
from Inverclyde, diplomat, Irishmodernistpoet, Irish-Scot, modernist poetry, modernist…Irish
Denis Devlin (April 15, 1908 - August 21, 1959) was, along with Samuel Beckett and Brian Coffey, one of the generation of Irish modernist poets to...
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

male, deceased (1989)
waiting for godot, Happy Days, humour, Death from emphysema, optimism, Aosdána…Irish, Irishmodernistpoet, Irish poetry, poet
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally...
Thomas Kinsella

Thomas Kinsella

male, 81 years old
poet, Irish poetry, from County Dublin, Civil Servant, modernist poetry, gaelic…Irish Gaelic poet, Irishmodernistpoet, Irish poet, Irish, modernist tradition
Thomas Kinsella (born May 4, 1928) is an Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher. His work, which is influenced by the modernist tradition, is...
Maurice Scully

Maurice Scully

male, 57 years old
Coelacanth Press, Icarus magazine, The Beau, The Belle, Coelocanth Press, Love Poems & Others…Irish poetry, modernist, modernist poetry, Irishmodernistpoet, Irish poet
Maurice Scully (born 1952) is an Irish poet and editor who works in what might be termed the modernist tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and...

Geoffrey Squires

male, 67 years old
poet, Sixteen Poems, Drowned Stones, Landscapes & Silence, Untitled and other Poems, Irish poetry…Northern Irish, modernist, modernist poetry, Irishmodernistpoet, Irish poet
Geoffrey Squires (born 1942) is an Irish poet who works in what might loosely be termed the modernist tradition. Squires was born in Derry and grew...

Mary Devenport O'Neill

female, deceased (1967)
Women poet, W. B. Yeats, Irish women writer, Women dramatists and playwright, Joseph O’Neill, Abbey Theatre…modernist poetry, modernist, Irishmodernistpoet, Modernist writer, Irish poetry
Mary Devenport O'Neill (August 3, 1879 - 1967) was an Irish poet and dramatist and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats. O'Neill studied at the...

Randolph Healy

male, 53 years old
Irish poet, Irishmodernistpoet, flame, Trinity College, Dublin, Irish poetry, Selected Poems
Randolph Healy (born 1956) is an Irish poet and publisher. Healy was born in Scotland and moved to Dublin at the age of 18 months. After leaving...
Susan Howe

Susan Howe

female, 72 years old
Women poet, University at Buffalo faculty, poet, Modernist writer, Language poet, from County Dublin…Irishmodernistpoet, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet, American poet
Susan Howe (born 1937) is an American poet and critic who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others. Her sister is the poet...