The Irish Literary Revival (c. 1885–1930)
A deliberate attempt to make a national literature, centred on Yeats but far wider than him: the Abbey, the Gaelic League, the collecting and translating of Irish-language song, and a set of arguments about what Irish writing should be that have never entirely stopped.
22 poets, earliest first.
- Dubhghlas de hÍde / Douglas Hyde ("An Craoibhín Aoibhinn") 1860–1949
- William Butler Yeats 1865–1939
- Alice Milligan 1866–1953
- Susan L. Mitchell 1866–1926
- Ella Young 1867–1956
- George William Russell ("AE") 1867–1935
- Eva Gore-Booth 1870–1926
- J.M. Synge 1871–1909
- Lola Ridge 1873–1941
- Thomas MacDonagh 1878–1916
- Joseph Campbell (Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil) 1879–1944
- Mary Devenport O'Neill 1879–1967
- Patrick Pearse (Pádraig Mac Piarais) 1879–1916
- Seumas O'Sullivan (James Starkey) 1879–1958
- Blanaid Salkeld 1880–1959
- Padraic Colum 1881–1972
- James Joyce 1882–1941
- Winifred Letts 1882–1972
- Francis Ledwidge 1887–1917
- Joseph Mary Plunkett 1887–1916
- F.R. Higgins 1896–1941
- Monk Gibbon 1896–1987
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