Poetry in Irish: precursors and mid-century
The remaking of poetry in Irish in the twentieth century. Máirtín Ó Direáin wrote the Aran island against the Dublin office; Seán Ó Ríordáin's Eireaball Spideoige broke the tradition open with something introspective and formally restless; Máire Mhac an tSaoi wrote a scandalous sequence about a woman's affair in traditional metres.
8 poets, earliest first.
- Pádraig de Brún 1889–1960
- Máirtín Ó Direáin 1910–1988
- Seán Ó Ríordáin 1916–1977
- Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (Eugene Watters) 1919–1982
- Máire Mhac an tSaoi 1922–2021
- Seán Ó Tuama 1926–2006
- Tomás Mac Síomóin 1938–2022
- Caitlín Maude 1941–1982
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