Periods
Irish poetry in seven periods, from the monastic scriptoria to the present. Every poet in the directory belongs to one.
Early Irish poetry
Monastic and early vernacular verse, and the lyrics that survive without authors.
54 poets — Amergin Glúingel, Moling of Luachair, Joseph Scottus, Donatus of Fiesole, Eochaid ua Flannacáin, Cú Mara mac Maic Liac, Gilla na Naemh Ua Duinn, In Timpanach Ua Connicén…The bardic era
The professional fili, hereditary and legally protected, trained in the schools.
48 poets — Aodh mac Diarmada Mac an Bhaird, Aed mac Donn Ó Sochlachain, Seán Buí Mac Bruideadha, Faolán Mac an Ghabhann na Scéal, Tadhg Óg Ó hUiginn, Ruaidrí Ó Curnín, Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn, Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn…Dispossession
After Kinsale and the confiscations: lament, satire and the aisling.
101 poets — Lodowick Bryskett, Seán Ó Neachtain, Raghnall Dall Mac Domhnaill, Laetitia Pilkington, John Cunningham (poet and dramatist), Henrietta Battier, Melesina Trench, Thomas Moore…The long nineteenth century
Anglo-Irish poetry, the ballad tradition, and the last of the Gaelic song-makers.
159 poets — Samuel Thomson, Zozimus, John Fraser (poet, died 1849), Jane Francesca Wilde ("Speranza"), Mary McDermott, Jean Sophia Pigott, Francis Fahy (songwriter), William B. McBurney…The Revival generation
Yeats and after: a literature consciously making a national tradition.
51 poets — Katharine Tynan, Susan L. Mitchell, Hester Sigerson Piatt, Thomas MacDonagh, James Stephens, Lennox Robinson, Katherine Arnold Price, Séamus Ó Duilearga…Mid-century
Modernists, the shadow of Yeats, and the remaking of poetry in Irish.
94 poets — Pádraig de Brún, Padraic Fallon, W.R. Rodgers, Valentin Iremonger, Eithne Strong, Anthony Cronin, Richard Weber, Caitlín Maude…Contemporary
Poets born from 1939: the Northern generation, Innti, and the present scene.
209 poets — Adam Rudden, Derry O'Sullivan, Mary Dorcey, Mary O'Malley, Máire Dinny Wren, Julian Gough, Elaine Feeney, Sheila O'Hagan…
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