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20th-century Irish poets

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James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
William Butler Yeats
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
Michael D. Higgins
President of Ireland (2011–2018; 2018–2025)
John Millington Synge
Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore (1871-1909)
Douglas Hyde
first President of Ireland; historian, poet, and folklorist (1860-1949)
Brendan Behan
Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright (1923-1964)
Joseph Plunkett
Irish nationalist, poet, journalist and 1916 Easter Rising leader
George Moore
Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist (1852-1933)
Christy Brown
Irish artist (1932-1981)
Cecil Day-Lewis
Irish-born British poet (1904–1972)
Terence MacSwiney
Irish playwright, author and nationalist politician (1879-1920)
Louis MacNeice
Irish poet and playwright (1907–1963)
Thomas MacDonagh
Irish nationalist, poet, playwright and revolutionary (1878-1916)
Patrick Kavanagh
Irish poet (1904–1967)
Padraic Colum
Irish writer (1881-1972)
Oliver St John Gogarty
Irish physician, writer and politician (1878-1957)
James Stephens
Irish author (1882-1950)
Eavan Boland
Irish poet
Desmond FitzGerald
Irish revolutionary, poet, publicist and politician (1888-1947)
Alice Perry
Irish engineer
Máire Mhac an tSaoi
Irish writer, poet, linguist and academic (1922–2021)
Máirtín Ó Direáin
Irish poet (1910-1988)
Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Irish poet
Christopher Nolan
Irish poet and author (1965-2009)
Joseph O'Neill
Irish poet
Dermot Healy
Irish writer (1947-2014)
Shane Leslie
Anglo-Irish nationalist writer
Micheál Mac Liammóir
Irish actor (1899-1978)
Austin Clarke
Irish writer (1896–1974)
Seán MacEntee
Irish politician (1889-1984)
Eilís Dillon
Irish writer (1920–1994)
Dermot Bolger
Irish writer
Lennox Robinson
Irish writer (1886-1958)
Frank McGuinness
Irish writer (born 1953)
Anthony Cronin
Irish poet
Michael Hartnett
Irish poet (1941–1999)
Frank Frankfort Moore
Irish dramatist, biographer, novelist and poet
Trevor Joyce
Irish poet
Paul Durcan
Irish poet (1944–2025)
Darrell Figgis
Irish politician
James Cousins
Irish writer, poet and playwright (1873–1956)
Patrick MacGill
Irish writer (1889–1963)
William Alexander
Irish bishop (1824–1911)
Charles Donnelly
Irish poet, left-wing activist (1914-1937)
Thomas MacGreevy
Irish poet (1893–1967)
Pat Ingoldsby
Irish television presenter
John Montague
Irish poet (1929–2016)
Iseult Gonne
Irish poet
Brendan Kennelly
Irish poet (1936–2021)
Moira O'Neill
Irish-Canadian poet
Moya Cannon
Irish author
Herbert Trench
Irish poet (1865-1923)
Tomás Mac Síomóin
Irish academic
Althea Gyles
Gyles, Margaret Alethea [known as Althea Gyles] (1868–1949), artist and poet
Emily Henrietta Hickey
Irish writer
Biddy Jenkinson
Irish poet, short story writer and dramatist
Johnny Byrne
Irish television writer, screenwriter, script editor, writer and poet