Languages

Poets are listed under each language they wrote in.

• Irish

  Poetry in Irish, among the oldest continuously attested vernacular literatures in Western Europe.
  210 poets — Amergin Glúingel, Airbertach mac Cosse, Aonghus Ruadh Ó Dálaigh, Eochaidh Ó hEódhusa, Muiris Ó Gormáin, Séamus Ó Duilearga, Alan Titley, Nuala Nic Con Iomaire…

• English

  Poets writing in English, from the Anglo-Irish eighteenth century to the present.
  509 poets — Adam Rudden, Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet, Mary McDermott, George William Russell ("AE"), Liam MacGabhann, Eva Bourke, Máighréad Medbh, Sheila O'Hagan…

• Latin

  Hiberno-Latin: Irish scholar-poets of early medieval Europe.
  7 poets — Columbanus, Joseph Scottus, Dungal, Johannes Scottus Eriugena, Sedulius Scottus, Donatus of Fiesole, Tuotilo

• Ulster Scots

  The rhyming weavers of Antrim and Down, writing in vernacular Ulster Scots.
  5 poets — Samuel Thomson, James Orr, Hugh Porter, Sarah Leech, Robert Huddleston

• French

  Irish poets who also wrote verse in French.
  2 poets — Samuel Beckett, Derry O'Sullivan

Last checked 2026-08-13