English

Poets writing in English, from the Anglo-Irish eighteenth century to the present.

514 poets, earliest first.

• Adam Rudden
• Gustav Parker Hibbett
• Mark Ward
• Lodowick Bryskett c. 1546–1612
• Walter Quin 1575–1640
• Dermod O'Meara fl. 1610
• John Denham 1614–1669
• Faithful Teate c. 1626–1666
• Luke Wadding 1628–1687
• Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon 1637–1685
• Nahum Tate 1652–1715
• Cornelius Mac Curtain 1658–1737
• Nicholas Brady 1659–1726
• James Farewell 1666–1689
• Jonathan Swift 1667–1745
• Mary Monck 1677–1715
• Thomas Parnell 1679–1718
• Mary Barber c. 1685–1755
• Thomas Sheridan (divine) 1687–1738
• Thomas Newburgh c. 1695–1779
• Nicholas Blake (Dominican) fl. 1698
• James Arbuckle 1700–1742
• Matthew Pilkington 1701–1774
• Constantia Grierson c. 1705–1732
• William Dunkin 1706–1765
• Samuel Boyse 1708–1749
• Laetitia Pilkington c. 1709–1750
• Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent 1709–1788
• Macnamara Morgan c. 1720–1762
• Henry Jones 1721–1770
• Frances Greville c. 1724–1789
• Richard Shackleton 1726–1792
• Dorothea Du Bois 1728–1774
• Francis Gentleman 1728–1784
• Oliver Goldsmith 1728–1774
• John Cunningham (poet and dramatist) 1729–1773
• Jane Elizabeth Moore 1738–1796
• Charlotte Brooke c. 1740–1793
• Elizabeth Ryves 1750–1797
• John Philpot Curran 1750–1817
• Eyles Irwin 1751–1817
• Henrietta Battier c. 1751–1813
• John Edwards (1751–1832) 1751–1832
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751–1816
• William Preston 1753–1807
• Patrick O'Kelly c. 1754–1835
• William Drennan 1754–1820
• Henrietta O'Neill 1758–1793
• Mary Leadbeater 1758–1826
• Jerome Alley 1760–1826
• Beaumont Brenan d. 1761
• Christopher Temple Emmet 1761–1788
• Dorothea Herbert c. 1767–1829
• Melesina Trench 1768–1827
• Jane Jowitt 1770–1846
• John Gilborne fl. 1770
• Trevor Ashe 1770–1836
• Mary Tighe 1772–1810
• J.S. Anna Liddiard 1773–1819
• Mary Anne Holmes 1773–1805
• Mary Birkett Card 1774–1817
• Thomas Dermody 1775–1802
• Adelaide O'Keeffe 1776–1865
• John O'Neill 1777–1854
• Thomas Houston c. 1777–1803
• William English d. 1778
• William Hamilton Drummond 1778–1865
• Thomas Moore 1779–1852
• George Croly 1780–1860
• John Macken c. 1784–1823
• Mary O'Brien fl. 1785
• Olivia Owenson, Lady Clarke 1785–1845
• Eaton Stannard Barrett 1786–1820
• Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet 1788–1846
• Mary E. Balfour fl. 1789
• James Wills 1790–1868
• Alicia Le Fanu 1791–1867
• Charles Wolfe 1791–1823
• Ellen Taylor fl. 1792
• Thomas Colley Grattan 1792–1864
• Philip Dixon Hardy 1794–1875
• Thomas Furlong 1794–1827
• Zozimus c. 1794–1846
• George Darley 1795–1846
• Jeremiah Joseph Callanan 1795–1829
• Eliza Hamilton Dunlop 1796–1880
• Jane Lewers Gray 1796–1871
• James Henry 1798–1876
• John Banim 1798–1842
• Louisa Stuart Costello 1799–1870
• Sophia Crawford (novelist) 1799–1878
• David Herbison 1800–1880
• Elizabeth Emmet Lenox-Conyngham 1800–1889
• Gerald Griffin 1803–1840
• James Clarence Mangan 1803–1849
• Edward Walsh 1805–1850
• Ellen Fitzsimon 1805–1883
• Eliza Mary Hamilton 1807–1851
• Helen Selina Blackwood, Lady Dufferin 1807–1867
• Vladimir Pecherin 1807–1885
• Clarissa von Ranke 1808–1871
• John Francis Waller 1809–1894
• John Fraser (poet, died 1849) c. 1809–1849
• John Swanwick Drennan 1809–1893
• Francis Davis 1810–1881
• Frank the Poet c. 1810–1861
• Samuel Ferguson 1810–1886
• Robert McBride 1811–1895
• John Skeffington, 10th Viscount Massereene 1812–1863
• Aubrey Thomas de Vere 1814–1902
• Thomas Davis 1814–1845
• Mary Downing c. 1815–1881
• Charles Gavan Duffy 1816–1903
• Frances Browne 1816–1879
• John Birmingham (astronomer) 1816–1884
• Denis Florence MacCarthy 1817–1882
• Michael Joseph Barry c. 1817–1889
• Cecil Frances Alexander 1818–1895
• Emily Elizabeth Shaw Beavan c. 1818–1897
• Joseph M. Scriven 1819–1886
• Charles J. Dunphie 1820–1908
• Elizabeth Willoughby Varian 1821–1896
• Jane Emily Herbert 1821–1882
• Jane Francesca Wilde ("Speranza") 1821–1896
• John O'Hanlon 1821–1905
• Richard D'Alton Williams 1822–1862
• Gerald Supple 1823–1898
• John Kells Ingram 1823–1907
• Thomas Caulfield Irwin 1823–1892
• James Casey (poet-priest) 1824–1909
• Maria La Touche 1824–1906
• William Allingham 1824–1889
• William Bonaparte-Wyse 1826–1892
• Timothy Daniel Sullivan 1827–1914
• Charles Kickham 1828–1882
• Ellen Forrester 1828–1883
• Ellen Mary Patrick Downing 1828–1869
• Emily Charlotte de Burgh, Countess of Cork 1828–1912
• Hester Varian 1828–1898
• Joseph Brenan 1828–1857
• Michael Hogan 1828–1899
• Olivia Knight 1828–1908
• Roderick Flanagan 1828–1862
• John Duncan Craig 1830–1909
• Ellen O'Leary 1831–1889
• Mary McDermott fl. 1832
• Michael Scanlan 1833–1917
• Matthew Russell 1834–1912
• George Sigerson 1836–1925
• Robert Dwyer Joyce 1836–1883
• James Lynam Molloy 1837–1909
• John Francis O'Donnell c. 1837–1874
• John Reade 1837–1919
• George Wade Robinson 1838–1876
• Edwin James Milliken 1839–1897
• James Murphy (Irish novelist) 1839–1922
• John Todhunter 1839–1916
• Ellen Mary Clerke 1840–1906
• Frances O'Brien 1840–1883
• Edmund John Armstrong 1841–1865
• George McDermot 1841–1917
• Rosa Mulholland (Lady Gilbert) 1841–1921
• Edward Dowden 1843–1913
• Nannie Lambert Power O'Donoghue 1843–1940
• John Martley 1844–1882
• Emily Henrietta Hickey 1845–1924
• Emily Lawless 1845–1913
• Jean Sophia Pigott 1845–1882
• Lucy Knox 1845–1884
• Mary Jane O'Donovan Rossa 1845–1916
• John Keegan Casey 1846–1870
• John McDonald 1846–1932
• Arnold Felix Graves 1847–1930
• James Jeffrey Roche 1847–1908
• Kathleen Knox 1847–1930
• Fanny Parnell 1848–1882
• Margaret Pender 1848–1920
• Michael McGovern 1848–1933
• Richard Ross-Lewin 1848–1922
• Mary McDonagh b. 1849
• Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy 1849–1897
• William Larminie 1849–1900
• Andrew Houston 1850–1920
• Edmond Holmes 1850–1936
• Arthur Ryan 1852–1922
• George Moore (novelist) 1852–1933
• Willie Wilde 1852–1899
• Johnny Tom Gleeson 1853–1924
• Francis Fahy (songwriter) 1854–1935
• Oscar Wilde 1854–1900
• Percy French 1854–1920
• William Henry Drummond 1854–1907
• Frank Frankfort Moore 1855–1931
• A. D. Godley 1856–1925
• Jane Barlow 1856–1917
• Eleanor Jane Alexander 1857–1939
• Eugene Davis 1857–1897
• T.W. Rolleston 1857–1920
• Katharine Tynan 1859–1931
• Rose Kavanagh 1859–1891
• Amanda McKittrick Ros 1860–1939
• Dubhghlas de hÍde / Douglas Hyde ("An Craoibhín Aoibhinn") 1860–1949
• Elinor Sweetman c. 1860–1922
• Neil McBride 1861–1942
• Patrick Joseph McCall 1861–1919
• Ida L. White fl. 1862
• Frances Wynne 1863–1893
• Mary Hobhouse 1864–1901
• Moira O'Neill (Agnes Higginson) 1864–1955
• Herbert Trench 1865–1923
• William Butler Yeats 1865–1939
• Alice Furlong 1866–1946
• Alice Milligan 1866–1953
• Dora Sigerson Shorter 1866–1918
• Ethna Carbery (Anna Johnston MacManus) 1866–1902
• Susan L. Mitchell 1866–1926
• Althea Gyles 1867–1949
• Ella Young 1867–1956
• George William Russell ("AE") 1867–1935
• Lionel Johnson 1867–1902
• Seumas MacManus 1867–1960
• Teresa Brayton 1868–1943
• Ethel Rolt Wheeler 1869–1958
• Eva Gore-Booth 1870–1926
• Florence Mary Wilson c. 1870–1946
• Hester Sigerson Piatt 1870–1939
• J.M. Synge 1871–1909
• George Roberts (publisher) 1873–1953
• James Cousins 1873–1956
• Lola Ridge 1873–1941
• Rhoda Cosgrave Sivell 1874–1962
• Oliver St. John Gogarty 1878–1957
• Thomas MacDonagh 1878–1916
• John MacDonagh 1879–1961
• Joseph Campbell (Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil) 1879–1944
• Kathleen M. Murphy 1879–1963
• Mary Devenport O'Neill 1879–1967
• Patrick Pearse (Pádraig Mac Piarais) 1879–1916
• Seumas O'Sullivan (James Starkey) 1879–1958
• Blanaid Salkeld 1880–1959
• James Stephens 1880–1950
• Padraic Colum 1881–1972
• James Joyce 1882–1941
• Lizzie Twigg c. 1882–1933
• Winifred Letts 1882–1972
• Val Vousden 1885–1951
• Lennox Robinson 1886–1958
• Francis Ledwidge 1887–1917
• Joseph Mary Plunkett 1887–1916
• Maurice Healy 1887–1943
• Desmond FitzGerald (politician) 1888–1947
• Nora J Murray 1888–1955
• Patrick MacGill 1890–1963
• William B. McBurney d. 1892
• Katherine Arnold Price 1893–1989
• Thomas MacGreevy 1893–1967
• Austin Clarke 1896–1974
• F.R. Higgins 1896–1941
• Monk Gibbon 1896–1987
• Richard Harry Graves 1897–1971
• Noëlle Ffrench Davies 1899–1983
• Geoffrey Phibbs 1900–1956
• Eileen Shanahan 1901–1979
• John Lyle Donaghy 1902–1949
• Patrick MacDonogh 1902–1961
• Ethna MacCarthy 1903–1959
• Ewart Milne 1903–1987
• Rhoda Coghill 1903–2000
• Cecil Day-Lewis 1904–1972
• Patrick Kavanagh 1904–1967
• Brian Coffey 1905–1995
• Padraic Fallon 1905–1974
• Samuel Beckett 1906–1989
• Sheila Wingfield (Viscountess Powerscourt) 1906–1992
• Freda Laughton 1907–1995
• George Reavey 1907–1976
• John Hewitt 1907–1987
• Louis MacNeice 1907–1963
• Denis Devlin 1908–1959
• Patrick Barrington, 11th Viscount Barrington 1908–1990
• Stanislaus Lynch 1908–1983
• Robert Farren 1909–1984
• W.R. Rodgers 1909–1969
• Brother Stephen Russell 1911–1975
• Michael Sayers 1911–2010
• Niall Sheridan 1912–1998
• Sigerson Clifford 1913–1985
• Charles Donnelly 1914–1937
• Nick Nicholls (painter) 1914–1991
• Niall Montgomery 1915–1987
• Liam MacGabhann b. 1917
• Valentin Iremonger 1918–1991
• Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (Eugene Watters) 1919–1982
• Terence O'Gorman 1919–2003
• Kevin Faller 1920–1983
• Robert Greacen 1920–2008
• Paddy Tunney 1921–2002
• Roy McFadden 1921–1999
• Freddie Anderson 1922–2001
• Leland Bardwell 1922–2016
• Basil Payne 1923–2012
• Brendan Behan 1923–1964
• Eithne Strong 1923–1999
• Geraldine Clinton Little 1923–1997
• Padraic Fiacc (Patrick Joseph O'Connor) 1924–2019
• Jerome Kiely 1925–2019
• Juanita Casey 1925–2012
• Patricia Burke Brogan 1926–2022
• Patrick Galvin 1927–2011
• Pearse Hutchinson 1927–2012
• Richard Kell 1927–2022
• Richard Murphy 1927–2018
• Anthony Cronin 1928–2016
• Thomas Kinsella 1928–2021
• John Montague 1929–2016
• John Jordan 1930–1988
• Maeve Kelly 1930–2025
• Maureen Charlton 1930–2007
• Helen Curtin Moskey 1931–2003
• Joan Keefe 1931–2013
• Seán Lucy 1931–2001
• Tom MacIntyre 1931–2019
• Christy Brown 1932–1981
• Eileen Lynn Kato 1932–2008
• Richard Weber 1932–2020
• James McKenna (artist) 1933–2000
• James Simmons 1933–2001
• Deirdre Brennan b. 1934
• James Liddy 1934–2008
• Desmond O'Grady 1935–2014
• Jim Craven 1935–1980
• Johnny Byrne 1935–2008
• Anne Cluysenaar 1936–2014
• Brendan Kennelly 1936–2021
• Desmond Egan b. 1936
• Michael Coady 1939–2024
• Michael Longley 27 July 1939 – 22 January 2025
• Seamus Heaney 1939–2013
• Mae Leonard b. 1940
• Patrick Alexander 1940–2005
• Seamus Deane 1940–2021
• Derek Mahon 1941–2020
• Eamon Grennan b. 1941
• Michael D. Higgins b. 1941
• Michael Hartnett (Micheál Ó hAirtnéide) 1941–1999
• Dorothy Molloy 1942–2004
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin b. 1942
• Geoffrey Squires b. 16 November 1942
• Macdara Woods 1942–2018
• Michael Smith 1942–2014
• Pat Ingoldsby 25 August 1942 – 1 March 2025
• Rosemarie Rowley b. 1942
• Augustus Young b. 1943
• Ciaran O'Driscoll b. 1943
• John F. Deane b. 1943
• Máire Bradshaw b. 1943
• Pádraig J. Daly b. 1943
• Eavan Boland 1944–2020
• Paul Durcan 16 October 1944 – 17 May 2025
• Anthony Glavin 1945–2006
• Bernard O'Donoghue b. 1945
• Hayden Murphy b. 1945
• Rory Brennan b. 1945
• Eva Bourke b. 1946
• Gréagóir Ó Dúill b. 1946
• Joan McBreen b. 1946
• Neil Donnelly b. 1946
• Richard Ryan (diplomat) b. 1946
• Tom McGurk b. 1946
• Aodhán Madden 1947–2015
• Catherine Byron b. 1947
• Dermot Healy 1947–2014
• Frank Ormsby b. 1947
• Hugh Maxton (W.J. McCormack) b. 1947
• Micheal O'Siadhail b. 1947
• Trevor Joyce b. 1947
• Celia de Fréine b. 1948
• Ciaran Carson 1948–2019
• Iggy McGovern b. 1948
• Paddy Bushe b. 1948
• Tom Paulin b. 1949
• Mary Dorcey b. 1950
• Medbh McGuckian b. 1950
• Philip Casey 1950–2018
• Roma Ryan b. 1950
• Gerard Smyth b. 1951
• Gregory O'Donoghue 1951–2005
• Ivy Bannister b. 1951
• Kerry Hardie b. 1951
• Paul Muldoon b. 1951
• Peter Fallon b. 1951
• Bernard Kennedy b. 1952
• Gerard Fanning 1952–2017
• Gerry Murphy b. 1952
• Harry Clifton b. 1952
• Matthew Sweeney 1952–2018
• Maurice Scully 1952–2023
• Philip McDonagh b. 1952
• Frank McGuinness b. 1953
• Maurice Riordan b. 1953
• Patrick Deeley b. 1953
• Rita Kelly b. 1953
• Theo Dorgan b. 1953
• Anatoly Kudryavitsky b. 1954
• Billy Mills b. 1954
• Catherine Phil MacCarthy b. 1954
• Dennis O'Driscoll 1954–2012
• Ian Duhig b. 1954
• Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons b. 1954
• Julie O'Callaghan b. 1954
• Mary O'Donnell b. 1954
• Mary O'Malley b. 1954
• Thomas McCarthy b. 1954
• Colm Tóibín b. 1955
• Nuala Archer b. 1955
• Paula Meehan b. 1955
• Rita Ann Higgins b. 1955
• Sebastian Barry b. 1955
• Tony Curtis (Irish poet) b. 1955
• William Wall b. 1955
• Aidan Mathews b. 1956
• Chris Agee b. 1956
• James Harpur b. 1956
• John O'Donohue 1956–2008
• Moya Cannon b. 1956
• Padraig Rooney b. 1956
• Randolph Healy b. 1956
• Seán Dunne 1956–1995
• Mary Noonan b. 1957
• Maura Dooley b. 1957
• Seán Mac Falls 1957–2023
• Greg Delanty b. 1958
• Harry White (musicologist) b. 1958
• John W. Sexton b. 1958
• Michael O'Loughlin b. 1958
• Anne Haverty b. 1959
• Dermot Bolger b. 1959
• Gerard Donovan b. 1959
• Máighréad Medbh b. 1959
• Michael O'Sullivan b. 1959
• Noelle Vial 1959–2003
• Alan Moore b. 1960
• Alice Lyons b. 1960
• Cherry Smyth b. 1960
• Peter Sirr b. 1960
• Jane Clarke b. 1961
• Martina Evans b. 1961
• Kate Dempsey b. 1962
• Katie Donovan b. 1962
• Peter McDonald b. 1962
• Cathal McCabe b. 1963
• Graham Allen b. 1963
• Pat Boran b. 1963
• Catherine Walsh b. 1964
• David Butler b. 1964
• Jinx Lennon b. 1964
• Nessa O'Mahony b. 1964
• Vona Groarke b. 1964
• Christopher Nolan 1965–2009
• John Mee b. 1965
• Enda Wyley b. 1966
• Julian Gough b. 1966
• Tom French b. 1966
• Kevin Higgins 1967–2023
• Sara Berkeley b. 1967
• Conor O'Callaghan b. 1968
• Justin Quinn b. 1968
• Patrick Chapman b. 1968
• Rachael Hegarty b. 1968
• Colette Bryce b. 1970
• David Wheatley b. 1970
• Nuala Ní Chonchúir b. 1970
• Sarah Clancy b. 1970s
• Ciaran Berry b. 1971
• Martin Dyar b. 1971
• Simon James Brady b. 1972
• Sinéad Morrissey b. 1972
• Alan Gillis b. 1973
• Caitríona O'Reilly b. 1973
• John McAuliffe b. 1973
• Leontia Flynn b. 1974
• Mary O'Donoghue b. 1975
• Nick Laird b. 1975
• Billy Ramsell b. 1977
• Colm Keegan b. 1978
• Elaine Feeney b. 1979
• Emmet Kirwan b. 1979
• Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan b. 1980s
• Miriam Gamble b. 1980
• Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe b. 1980s
• Rosamund Taylor b. 1980s
• Victoria Kennefick b. 1980
• Ailbhe Darcy b. 1981
• Annemarie Ní Churreáin b. 1981
• Doireann Ní Ghríofa b. 1981
• Sarah Crossan b. 1981
• Sean Godley b. 1981
• Queva Griffin 1983–2003
• Stephen James Smith b. 1983
• Gail McConnell b. 1984
• Jessica Traynor b. 1984
• Ciara Ní É b. 1988
• Stephen Sexton b. 1988
• Scott McKendry b. 1989
• Dean Browne b. 1990s
• Emily S. Cooper b. 1990
• James Conor Patterson b. 1990
• Milena Williamson b. 1990s
• Nithy Kasa b. 1990s
• Seán Hewitt b. 1990
• Padraig Regan b. 1993
• FeliSpeaks (Felicia Olusanya) b. 1994
• Natalya O'Flaherty b. 2000
• Sheila O'Hagan d. 2017

Last checked 2026-08-13