Modernists, mid-century and the long shadow of Yeats (1930s–1960s)
The generation that had to get out from under Yeats. Clarke and Kavanagh went one way — inward, local, and hard on the Ireland they lived in. MacGreevy, Coffey, Devlin and Beckett went another, European and modernist, and were left out of the anthologies for fifty years.
22 poets, earliest first.
- Thomas MacGreevy 1893–1967
- Austin Clarke 1896–1974
- Ewart Milne 1903–1987
- Rhoda Coghill 1903–2000
- Cecil Day-Lewis 1904–1972
- Patrick Kavanagh 1904–1967
- Brian Coffey 1905–1995
- Samuel Beckett 1906–1989
- Sheila Wingfield (Viscountess Powerscourt) 1906–1992
- Freda Laughton 1907–1995
- John Hewitt 1907–1987
- Louis MacNeice 1907–1963
- Denis Devlin 1908–1959
- W.R. Rodgers 1909–1969
- Charles Donnelly 1914–1937
- Valentin Iremonger 1918–1991
- Robert Greacen 1920–2008
- Roy McFadden 1921–1999
- Leland Bardwell 1922–2016
- Brendan Behan 1923–1964
- Eithne Strong 1923–1999
- Padraic Fiacc (Patrick Joseph O'Connor) 1924–2019
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