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Pat Ingoldsby (born 25 August 1942 in Malahide, Dublin, Ireland) [1] is an Irish poet and TV presenter.He has hosted children's TV shows, written plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories and been a newspaper columnist.
On "Tuireamh na hÉireann," Vincent Morley wrote that it was "arguably one of the most important works ever written in Ireland. Composed in simple metre, easily understandable and capable of being learned by heart, this poem supplied an understanding of Irish history for the Catholic majority (monoglot speakers of Irish who could neither read nor write for the next two hundred years)."
A poem of the same name by Eavan Boland was written as a counter to Pearse's poem, and its treatment of Ireland and her children. [6] Pearse had already written optimistically on the fate of Ireland's strong sons' martyrdom in his poem "The Mother"; Is Mise takes the opposite, more pessimistic view of the sacrifice. [7]
In 1987 he resigned his professorship to write poetry. He was a member of the Arts Council of the Republic of Ireland (1987–93), of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Relations (1989–97), and was editor of Poetry Ireland Review. He was the founding chairman of ILE (Ireland Literature Exchange).
It is hard not to acknowledge Mangan's debts to such translators and collectors of traditional Irish poetry as Samuel Ferguson and James Hardiman; many of Mangan's poems, for instance Dark Roseleen, appear to be adaptations of earlier translations rather than original translations. Mangan is also frequently read as a Romantic poet.
Michael Longley CBE (27 July 1939 – 22 January 2025) was a Northern Irish poet. Following his death, the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, called Longley "a peerless poet". [1]
Padraic and his mother and siblings remained in Ireland, having moved to live with his grandmother in County Cavan. [2] When his father returned in 1892, the family moved to Glasthule , near Dublin , where his father was employed as Assistant Manager at Sandycove and Glasthule railway station .
North (1975) is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.It was the first of his works that directly dealt with the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and it looks frequently to the past for images and symbols relevant to the violence and political unrest of that time.