The Gaelic poets of dispossession (17th–19th centuries)
The poets who outlived their patrons. Trained for a hereditary profession that no longer existed, they wrote lament, satire and the aisling from schoolrooms, farms and the roads, and produced some of the most unguarded poetry in the language.
19 poets, earliest first.
- Seathrún Céitinn (Geoffrey Keating) c. 1580–c. 1644
- Pádraigín Haicéad c. 1600–1654
- Piaras Feiritéar c. 1600–1653
- Caitilín Dubh fl. 1624–1629
- Dáibhí Ó Bruadair c. 1625–1698
- Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta c. 1647–1733
- Aogán Ó Rathaille c. 1670–1729
- Turlough O'Carolan (Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin) 1670–1738
- Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna c. 1680–1756
- Peadar Ó Doirnín c. 1704–1769
- Art Mac Cumhaigh 1738–1773
- Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill c. 1743–c. 1800
- Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin 1748–1784
- Brian Merriman c. 1749–1805
- Seán Ó Coileáin c. 1754–1817
- Micheál Óg Ó Longáin 1766–1837
- Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire 1774–1848
- Antoine Ó Raifteirí (Anthony Raftery) 1779–1835
- Colm de Bhailís 1796–1906
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