Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

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

Oscar Wilde

male, deceased (1900)
brilliant wit, incarcerated celebrity, socialist, Playwright, writer, novelist…Victorian poetry, Irishpoetry, Irish
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of...
Thomas Kinsella

Thomas Kinsella

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

Austin Clarke

male, deceased (1974)
W. B. Yeats, English, Playwright, Irish, Irish poet, Abbey Theatre…Irish language, Irishpoetry
Austin Clarke (May 9 1896-March 19 1974) was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and...
Michael Hartnett

Michael Hartnett

male, deceased (1999)
poet, Irish, Irish poet, Irish Gaelic poet, gaelic, English…Irish language, Irishpoetry
Michael Hartnett was an Irish poet who wrote in both English and Irish. Belonging to no group or movement and operating outside of literary...
James Clarence Mangan

James Clarence Mangan

male, deceased (1849)
poet, Irish, Irish poet, from County Dublin, Death from cholera, Irishpoetry
James Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan (1 May 1803, Dublin - 20 June 1849) was an Irish poet.
Justin Quinn

Justin Quinn

male, 41 years old
from County Dublin, Forward Poetry Prize, The New Irish Poet, Dublin Review, Irishpoetry, Trinity College, Dublin…Irish poet, Irish
Justin Quinn is an Irish poet and critic, born in Dublin in 1968. He received a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, where his contemporaries...
Pat Boran

Pat Boran

male, 46 years old
poet, The Unwound Clock, The Shape of Water, History and Promise, As the Hand, the Glove, Portlaoise…Irishpoetry, Irish
Pat Boran is an Irish poet. Born in Portlaoise, Boran has lived in Dublin for a number of years. He is the publisher of the Dedalus Press which...
Maurice Scully

Maurice Scully

male, 57 years old
Coelacanth Press, Icarus magazine, The Beau, The Belle, Coelocanth Press, Love Poems & Others…Irishpoetry, modernist poetry, Irish modernist poet, 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...
Richard Murphy

Richard Murphy

male, 82 years old
poet, Aosdána, Irish, Irish poet, from County Mayo, Royal Society of Literature…Irishpoetry
Richard Murphy is an Irish poet. He was awarded the Æ Memorial Award (1951); first prize, Guinness Awards, Cheltenham (1962); British Arts Council A...