Ireland & Northern Ireland

Robert McDowell is a proponent of narrative and formal resurgence in American poetry as well as poetry as spiritual practice. McDowell’s poems, narratives, and lyrics focus on 20th-century American life. His…

Thomas Moore was closely attuned to the taste and artistic sensibility of his age, but he is remembered now primarily by the Irish, who still sing his songs and claim him as their own. He was a born lyricist…

Francis Ledwidge grew up in the Irish countryside. His father died when he was only five years old, leaving him, his mother, and his seven siblings in poverty. Despite financial hardships, Ledwidge’s mother…

Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland. He spent much of his early adult life in England before returning to Dublin to serve as Dean of St…

Poet Greg Delanty was born in Cork, Ireland, and earned his BA at the National University of Ireland. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Book Seventeen (2015), Loosestrife (2011)…

Richard Murphy was born in the west of Ireland but spent part of his early childhood in Ceylon. He attended Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Sorbonne. Then, for some years, he ran a fishing boat in County…

Poet and editor Frank Ormsby grew up in rural Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was educated at St. Michael’s College and Queen’s University in Belfast and influenced by Seamus Heaney. …

Irish poet and playwright Paula Meehan was born in working-class Dublin and earned degrees from Trinity College and Eastern Washington University. She is the author of the poetry collections Return and No …

Sinéad Morrissey was born in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and raised in Belfast. She earned her BA and PhD at Trinity College Dublin. After years of traveling and teaching abroad, she currently…

Poet and translator Justin Quinn was born in Dublin, Ireland and earned his BA and PhD from Trinity College. He is the author of six collections of poetry: The Ooaa Bird (1995), Privacy (1999), Fuselage (2002…

Irish poet and mathematician George Darley was born in Dublin and earned a BA at Trinity College. He settled in London in the early 1820s. Though he did not receive significant critical acclaim during his …

Paul Perry is the author of five collections of poetry, including Gunpowder Valentine: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2014).

Billy Ramsell was awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary in 2013. His second collection is The Architect’s Dream of Winter (The Dedalus Press, 2013). He lives in Cork, Ireland.

Michelle O’Sullivan’s latest book is The Flower and the Frozen Sea, published by The Gallery Press (2015), which was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Declan Ryan was born in Mayo, Ireland, and now lives in London. His first collection, Crisis Actor (2023), was published in the UK by Faber & Faber and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US.

Dean Browne was raised in Tipperary, Ireland, and lives in Cork. His work has appeared in Crannóg, The Penny Dreadful, and elsewhere.

Alan Gillis is from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and teaches English literature at the University of Edinburgh. He recently coedited The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2012)…

Ciaran Berry’s most recent collection is The Dead Zoo (The Gallery Press, 2013). He is from Donegal in the northwest of Ireland and lives in Hartford, Connecticut.

Caoilinn Hughes is the author of the novel Orchid & the Wasp (Hogarth, 2018) and the poetry collection Gathering Evidence (Carcanet Press, 2014), which won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award. Her second novel…

Martin Dyar grew up in Swinford, in County Mayo, Ireland. He earned an MA in English literature at NUI Galway and a PhD in English literature at Trinity College Dublin, where he wrote his thesis on Wallace…