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some Famous Irish Poets

John Montague

Seamus Heaney

W.B. Yeats

Patrick Kavanagh

James Joyce

A.E. (George Russel)

Samuel Beckett

Oscar Wilde

Oliver Goldsmith

Jonathan Swift

James Clarence Mangan

Thomas Moore


William Butler Yeats was the first Irishman to win a Nobel Award, in the words of the award "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation"

Samuel Beckett, one of Ireland’s famous emigrants left for Paris in 1932 and became James Joyce’s secretary. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

Seamus Heaney grew up in rural Co Derry, in the North of Ireland.

In awarding him the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1995, he was honored "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past"

John Montague

John Montague was the first Ireland Professor of Poetry. The chair was set up to mark the standing of Irish poets in this century on the world stage and to commemorate the achievement of Seamus Heaney in winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.

Derek Mahon has called Montague "the best Irish poet of his generation." He has received many awards, including the Irish-American Cultural Institute's Award for Literature, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award for 1995, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

He is the author of numerous collections and editor of anthologies. Wake Forest is the publisher of his last nine volumes, including his most recent, Drunken Sailor (2005).

"He is a world-class poet, one of that extraordinary group — perhaps a dozen? — who illuminate our lives, not just for now, but for as long as words have meaning." Carolyn Kizer

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