The long nineteenth century
Anglo-Irish poetry, the ballad tradition, and the last of the Gaelic song-makers.
Two traditions run in parallel and barely meet. In Irish, the song-makers continue — Antoine Ó Raifteirí travelling Connacht as a fiddler, Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire composing without literacy — while the language itself contracts under famine and emigration.
In English, Anglo-Irish poetry becomes a public instrument. Thomas Moore sets nationalist sentiment to traditional airs for English drawing rooms; Thomas Davis writes ballads designed as political tools, and they work. James Clarence Mangan, opium-addicted and dead of cholera at forty-six, produces the strangest poetry of the century from the margins of it.
This is also the period of the Ulster Scots rhyming weavers, and of women — Tighe, Lawless, Alexander, Tynan — whose reputations have moved considerably since.
159 poets, earliest first.
- Samuel Thomson 1766–1816
- James Orr 1770–1816
- Adelaide O'Keeffe 1776–1865
- William Hamilton Drummond 1778–1865
- Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin 1780–1838
- George Croly 1780–1860
- Hugh Porter b. c. 1780
- John Macken c. 1784–1823
- Mary O'Brien fl. 1785
- Olivia Owenson, Lady Clarke 1785–1845
- Tomás Rua Ó Súilleabháin 1785–1848
- Eaton Stannard Barrett 1786–1820
- Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet 1788–1846
- Marcas Ó Callanáin 1789–1846
- Mary E. Balfour fl. 1789
- James Wills 1790–1868
- Alicia Le Fanu 1791–1867
- Charles Wolfe 1791–1823
- Peatsaí Ó Callanáin c. 1791–1865
- 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
- Colm de Bhailís 1796–1906
- 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
- Michael Burke c. 1800–1881
- 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
- Sarah Leech 1809–1830
- 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
- Robert Huddleston 1814–1887
- 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
- Seán Mag Fhloinn fl. 1843
- 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
- Tomás Bacach Ó Dúgáin fl. 1848
- 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
- Rose Kavanagh 1859–1891
- Amanda McKittrick Ros 1860–1939
- 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
- Herbert Trench 1865–1923
- Alice Furlong 1866–1946
- Althea Gyles 1867–1949
- Teresa Brayton 1868–1943
- Ethel Rolt Wheeler 1869–1958
- William B. McBurney d. 1892
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