Pat Boran
(Ireland, 1963)
Pat Boran was born in Portlaoise, Ireland, in 1963 and currently lives in Dublin. Prior …
Colm Breathnach
(Ireland, 1961)
Breathnach was born Cork City in 1961. He studied philosophy and Irish at UCC and now …
Harry Clifton
(Ireland, 1952)
Harry Clifton was born in Dublin in 1952. He studied at Blackrock College and later at …
Michael Coady
(Ireland, 1939)
Michael Coady was born in 1939 in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, where he has lived …
Ailbhe Darcy
(Ireland, 1981)
Ailbhe Darcy was born in Dublin in 1981, raised there, and currently lives in South …
Celia de Fréine
(Ireland, 1948)
Celia de Fréine is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and poet who writes in …
Louis De Paor
(Ireland, 1961)
Louis de Paor was born in Cork in 1961. Despite being a decade younger than the …
John F. Deane
(Ireland, 1943)
John F. Deane is one of the most gifted and influential poets in Ireland, not only …
Greg Delanty
(Ireland, 1958)
Greg Delanty is one of the most important lyric poets of Southern Ireland. Although the …
Katie Donovan
(Ireland, 1962)
Katie Donovan, born 1962, grew up on a farm in County Wexford and is now based in a …
Theo Dorgan
(Ireland, 1953)
Theo Dorgan was born in 1953 into a large working-class family on Cork City’s …
John Ennis
(Ireland, 1944)
John Ennis was born in Westmeath in 1944. A winner of the Listowel Open Poetry …
Martina Evans
(Ireland, 1961)
Martina Evans was born in 1961 to a large family in County Cork, where her mother ran a …
Patrick Galvin
(Ireland, 1927–2011)
Patrick Galvin was a playwright, songwriter and author of a bestselling series of …
Vona Groarke
(Ireland, 1964)
Vona Groarke was born in 1964 in Edgeworthstown in the Irish Midlands, a town already …
Kerry Hardie
(Singapore, 1951)
Kerry Hardie was born in Singapore in 1951 and grew up in County Down. Once a …
James Harpur
(Britain, 1956)
James Harpur was born in Britain in 1956 to an Irish father and a British mother and …
Michael Hartnett
(Ireland, 1941–1999)
Michael Hartnett was born in Croom, County Limerick, in 1941. He was one of the most …
Michael D. Higgins
(Ireland, 1941)
Michael D. Higgins, poet and President of Ireland, was born in Limerick in 1941. He was …
Trevor Joyce
(Ireland, 1947)
Trevor Joyce was born in Dublin in 1947 and raised between Mary Street in the city …
Brendan Kennelly
(Ireland, 1936)
Brendan Kennelly is a celebrated figure among his own countrymen, almost as much so as …
Michael Longley
(Ireland, 1939)
Michael Longley belongs to the leading Irish poets of his generation. He was born to …
Dave Lordan
(United Kingdom, 1975)
Dave Lordan was born in Derby, England, and grew up in Clonakilty in West Cork. He has …
Aifric Mac Aodha
(Ireland, 1979)
Aifric Mac Aodha was born in Dublin in 1979. Her first collection, Gabháil Syrinx (The …
Derek Mahon
(Ireland, 1941)
Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941 and studied French literature at Trinity …
Jennifer Matthews
(USA, 1976)
Jennifer Matthews was born in Columbia, Missouri (USA) in 1976. After studying for the …
Thomas McCarthy
(Ireland, 1954)
Thomas McCarthy was born and raised at Cappoquin Co. Waterford. He began to publish …
Paula Meehan
(Ireland, 1955)
Paula Meehan was born in 1955 and raised in two famous working-class districts of …
Máire Mhac an tSaoi
(Ireland, 1922)
Máire Mhac an tSaoi was born in Dublin in 1922. Her father, Seán …
John Montague
(USA, 1929)
John Montague was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929. At the age of four he was sent to …
Sinead Morrissey
(Ireland, 1972)
Sinéad Morrissey was born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, in 1972 and has been writing …
Panchali Mukherji
(India, 1973)
Panchali Mukherji was born in Calcutta, India in 1973. She was educated in India and …
Paul Muldoon
(Ireland, 1951)
I first met Paul Muldoon in 1984 at an almost intimate reading in University College …
Gerry Murphy
(Ireland, 1952)
Gerry Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. After dropping out of university in the early …
Richard Murphy
(Ireland, 1927)
Richard Murphy was born eighty years ago in the West of Ireland into a Protestant …
Aidan Murphy
(Ireland, 1952)
Aidan Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. He lived and worked for many years in London, …
Caitríona Ní Chléirchín
(Ireland, 1978)
Caitríona Ní Chléirchín won first prize in the 2010 Oireachtas competition for new …
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
(Ireland, 1970)
Ní Chonchúir is one of a younger generation of Irish poets who look more to Europe for …
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
(Ireland, 1942)
Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942, educated there and at Oxford before …
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
(United Kingdom, 1952)
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill was born in Lancashire, England in 1952 to Irish physicians, and …
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
(Ireland, 1984)
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh was born in Co. Kerry, in the southwest of Ireland, in …
Bríd Ní Mhóráin
(Ireland, 1951)
Bríd Ní Mhóráin was raised in Camp, County Kerry, on the …
Simon Ó Faoláin
(Ireland, 1973)
Simon Ó Faoláin was born in Dublin and raised in west Kerry. He trained …
Liam Ó Muirthile
(Ireland, 1950)
Liam Ó Muirthile is a poet and writer. Born in Cork City in 1950, he learned Irish at …
Mary O’Donoghue
(Ireland, 1975)
Mary O’Donoghue, even more than most poets, is in love with words. She delights …
Eugene O'Connell
(Ireland, 1951)
Eugene O’Connell was born near Kiskeam in northwest Cork in 1951. He has published a …
Mary O'Donnell
(Ireland, 1954)
Mary O’Donnell was born in Co. Monaghan, an area whose geographical proximity to …
Gregory O'Donoghue
(Ireland, 1951–2005)
Gregory O’Donoghue was born in Cork in 1951, son of the poet and playwright Robert …
Dennis O'Driscoll
(Ireland, 1954–2012)
Dennis O’Driscoll was born in Thurles, County Tipperary in 1954. He has written …
Mary O'Malley
(Ireland, 1954)
Mary O’Malley was born in Connamara and educated at University College, Galway. She …
Bernard O’Donoghue
(Ireland, 1945)
Bernard O’Donoghue was born in North Cork in 1945. He moved to Manchester in the United …
Ciaran O’Driscoll
(Ireland, 1943)
Ciaran O’Driscoll was born in Co. Kilkenny and lives in Limerick. He has published …
Michael O’Loughlin
(Ireland, 1958)
Michael O’Loughlin was born in Dublin in 1958 and studied at Trinity College Dublin. In …
Leanne O’Sullivan
(Ireland, 1983)
Leanne O’Sullivan was born in Cork and is currently completing her Bachelor’s degree in …
Paul Perry
(Ireland, 1972)
Paul Perry’s poems often possess a confessional delicacy and apparent simplicity …
Billy Ramsell
(Ireland, 1977)
Billy Ramsell was born in 1977 in Cork, where he was educated in the North Monastery …
Maurice Riordan
(Ireland, 1953)
Maurice Riordan (born in Lisgoold, Co. Cork in 1953) was educated at University College …
Mark Roper
(UK, 1951)
Mark Roper was born in Derbyshire in 1951, and brought up in North London. He went to a …
Gabriel Rosenstock
(Ireland, 1949)
Gabriel Rosenstock was born in Kilfinane, Co. Limerick and studied at University …
Peter Sirr
(Ireland, 1960)
Peter Sirr, a freelance writer and translator, is one of Ireland’s most …
Gerard Smyth
(Ireland, 1951)
Gerard Smyth was born in Dublin in 1951. His first two books were published by the New …
Matthew Sweeney
(Ireland, 1952)
Born in Lifford, Co. Donegal in 1952, Sweeney lived principally in London from the mid …
David Wheatley
(Ireland, 1970)
David Wheatley was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1970. He grew up outside the city in the …
Landa Wo
(France, 1972)
Landa Wo is an Angolan-French poet. Born in 1972 in Saint-Etienne (France) he is a …
Adam Wyeth
(UK, 1978)
Adam Wyeth was born in Sussex in 1978, and has lived in Co. Cork for over ten years. …
 

 
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