...) to the productive near-present, in the shape of those poets who came to maturity in the 1960s, such as (in the case of MacNeice) Derek Mahon and Michael Longley. ⁸ Dillon Johnston’s Irish Poetry after Joyce (1985) embeds this idea into its structure, pairing a contemporary poet...

... of society. Irish poetry embodied and animated this self-consciousness, and told of Ireland’s cultural and historical connections with the biblical and classical world. The classical tradition also modeled the triumph of ordered memory over time, and inspired hope in those who had experienced, and who...

... Richard Pearse Patrick Bolger Dermot Doyle Roddy Hamilton Hugo capitalism Gibbons Luke Fanning Bryan Ginsberg Allen globalisation Neruda Pablo Whitman Walt Said Edward diaspora Yeats William Butler Joyce James recession Irish poetry Kinga Olszewska Colette Bryce Mary O'Donnell Michael...

...This chapter shows how contemporary Irish poetry grapples with the politicized history of place, from the unfinished “ghost estates” to the recent monetization of water and the converted hotels used to keep asylum seekers in perpetual limbo. Readings of Irish poetry by Paula Meehan, Mary O’Malley...

... Contemporary Irish Poetry Irish Women Poets Sinéad Morrissey Eva Bourke Mairéad Byrne Cultural Memory Migrant Writing Irish Diaspora Ireland’s dual tradition is a catalyst for debate on cultural diversity in both language and literary production. For more than a century Ireland’s relationship to its...

... Romanization Nero emperor O’Donnell Frank Hugh writer Gaul Paganism Hopkins Gerard Manley poet Comparison Irish Revival translation George Sigerson Imperialism Irish poetry Colonial mimicry Cicero Sedulius What idea of the state, what substitute for that of the toga’d race that ruled...

... Fisher Philip Dana Irish Revival Ecocriticism Irish Poetry Natural History Modernism Fin-de-Siecle Literature Seumas O’Sullivan W.B. Yeats Irish Literature In a mid-nineteenth century review of a collection of poems regarding antiquity, the reviewer turned to make a lengthy aside...

... Press Hardy Thomas Harwood Lee Heaney Seamus Hill Geoffrey McGuckian Medbh Pickard Tom Plath Sylvia Raworth Tom Salt Publishing Sinclair Iain Williams C K modernism late modernism regional national Irish poetry British poetry post-war The years after the Second World War...

... Paris, and decided to never live again in Ireland, although he could not completely disentangle himself from the land of his birth. Beckett's early career was characterised by the ritual denunciation of all or almost all things Irish in ‘Recent Irish Poetry’ (1934). In 1935, he published Echo's...

... innovations in narration, which would exert a profound influence on recent Irish poetry as well as prose, occurred mostly in his prose, these experimental narrations began a stealthy emergence in his poetry. In Joyce's poems, narrative doubling or duplicity is often ignored, and apparent narrative uniformity...

...The work of Louis MacNeice occupies a central place in accounts of twentieth-century Irish poetry, and critics including Terence Brown, Edna Longley, and Peter McDonald have tried to locate MacNeice among Irish concerns. In his study, Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s...

...Irish poetry has often been assumed to share a special connection to music, whether it is the ‘musicality’ of Irish speech to rhyme and stress patterns in verse or beliefs about the social role of poetry in national life. Indeed, all three underlie Thomas MacDonagh's conception of a distinctive...

... misreaders of Bloom, including Michael O'Neill and Lucy Newlyn, view influence as more positive than anxious, but in the process remove much of the original energy from Bloom's theory. This chapter examines contemporary Northern Irish poetry and Romanticism, focusing on how the former negotiated, undermined...

... translations of Irish poetry, first examines the nature and range of Gaelic poetry, and then turns to the ethics of translation. Gaelic League Gregory Lady Isabella Augusta Hiberno English Hyde Douglas Synge John Millington Callanan J J Ferguson Samuel Pearse Patrick Bardic verse Colum Pádraic...

... and Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, and Ciaran Carson. Muldoon is the main translator and, in many accounts, the most successful, of Ní Dhomhnaill's Irish poetry. Translation into the English language and dual-language poetry seems to be the most viable mode of publishing poems in the Irish language...

...Recent Irish poets' engagements with other languages (Seamus Heaney with Old English; Michael Longley with Greek; Ciaran Carson, Derek Mahon, and David Wheatley with French; and Peter Fallon and Derek Mahon with Latin) offer important insights into contemporary Irish poetry written in English...

... wave that began to roll across Ireland at the beginning of the 1960s. Some of the actors in the island's story of modernisation are two poets who surfed in on the revisionist tide: Paul Durcan and Brendan Kennelly. In discussions of Irish poetry, Durcan and Kennelly are often bracketed together...

...This chapter discusses Catholic art and culture by focusing on Irish poetry, particularly the work of three poets raised in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland: Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney. It examines Clarke's topical social critique and satire of Catholic institutions...

... definitions of home, a radical challenge to the conventional modes of Irish poetry. In Belfast, the processes of urbanisation, globalisation, and migration have given rise to new relations between rootedness and mobility, local and global, centre and periphery. Barthes Roland Hughes Eamonn Longley Edna...