Traditions
Schools, movements and groupings — bardic poetry, the Revival, Innti, the neo-modernist line, the rhyming weavers.
Hiberno-Latin
3 poets — Columbanus, Johannes Scottus Eriugena, Sedulius Scottus
The early and medieval tradition (c. 6th–16th centuries)
12 poets — Amergin Glúingel, Líadain, Blathmac mac Con Brettan, Uallach ingen Muinecháin, Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh, Tadhg Óg Ó hUiginn, Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn, Eochaidh Ó hEódhusa…
The Gaelic poets of dispossession (17th–19th centuries)
19 poets — Seathrún Céitinn (Geoffrey Keating), Caitilín Dubh, Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta, Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, Art Mac Cumhaigh, Brian Merriman, Micheál Óg Ó Longáin, Colm de Bhailís…
Anglo-Irish poetry (late 17th–19th centuries)
32 poets — Nahum Tate, William Drennan, Jeremiah Joseph Callanan, Aubrey Thomas de Vere, William Allingham, Edward Dowden, Katharine Tynan, Lionel Johnson…
Ulster Scots — the Rhyming Weavers
4 poets — Samuel Thomson, James Orr, Hugh Porter, Robert Huddleston
The Irish Literary Revival (c. 1885–1930)
22 poets — Dubhghlas de hÍde / Douglas Hyde ("An Craoibhín Aoibhinn"), Susan L. Mitchell, Eva Gore-Booth, Thomas MacDonagh, Patrick Pearse (Pádraig Mac Piarais), Padraic Colum, Francis Ledwidge, Monk Gibbon…
Poetry in Irish: precursors and mid-century
8 poets — Pádraig de Brún, Máirtín Ó Direáin, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (Eugene Watters), Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Seán Ó Tuama, Tomás Mac Síomóin, Caitlín Maude
Modernists, mid-century and the long shadow of Yeats (1930s–1960s)
22 poets — Thomas MacGreevy, Rhoda Coghill, Brian Coffey, Freda Laughton, Denis Devlin, Valentin Iremonger, Leland Bardwell, Padraic Fiacc (Patrick Joseph O'Connor)…
Poetry in Irish: contemporary
20 poets — Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin, Gréagóir Ó Dúill, Paddy Bushe, Rody Gorman, Micheál Ó Conghaile, Simon Ó Faoláin, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Ciara Ní É…
The experimental and neo-modernist line
7 poets — Geoffrey Squires, Michael Smith, Trevor Joyce, Maurice Scully, Billy Mills, Randolph Healy, Catherine Walsh
The Innti generation (poetry in Irish, from 1970)
5 poets — Biddy Jenkinson, Gabriel Rosenstock, Liam Ó Muirthile, Michael Davitt, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
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