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John Ennis is an Irish poet born in Westmeath in 1944.
He retired as head of the School of Humanities at Waterford Institute of Technology in 2009 and now divides his time between Waterford and Westmeath. [1] He is a graduate of University College Cork and University College Dublin. [2] He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1975, the Listowel Open Poetry Competition eleven times, and the Irish American Cultural Institute Award in 1996. He has been editor of Poetry Ireland Review and served on the board of Poetry Ireland for eleven years. From 2003 to 2007, he co-edited three anthologies of Canadian – Irish Poetry. In 2008, Memorial University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Laws for fostering links between Ireland and Newfoundland, and for his poetry. [3] In the ‘90s, Seamus Heaney chose him as Ireland's most undeservedly neglected poet. [4]
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Pat Boran is an Irish poet.
Thomas Kinsella was an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher. Born outside Dublin, Kinsella attended University College Dublin before entering the civil service. He began publishing poetry in the early 1950s and, around the same time, translated early Irish poetry into English. In the 1960s, he moved to the United States to teach English at universities including Temple University. Kinsella continued to publish steadily until the 2010s.
Hugh McFadden is an Irish poet, literary editor, lecturer and freelance journalist.
Robert Greacen was an Irish poet and member of Aosdána. Born in Derry, Ireland, on 24 October 1920, he was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. He died on 13 April 2008 in Dublin, Ireland.
John F. Deane is an Irish poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979.
John Jordan (1930–1988) was an Irish poet and short-story writer.
Macdara Woods was an Irish poet.
Harry Clifton is an Irish poet.
Theo Dorgan is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer, translator, librettist and documentary screenwriter. He lives in Dublin.
Gregory O'Donoghue (1951–2005) was an Irish poet.
Basil Payne was an Irish poet and lecturer.
Constan Olive Leland Bardwell was an Irish poet, novelist, and playwright. She was part of the literary scene in London and later Dublin, where she was an editor of literary magazines Hibernia and Cyphers. She published five volumes of poetry, novels, plays and short stories, for which she received the Marten Toonder Award and the Dede Korkut Short Story Award from Turkish PEN. In later life, she moved to Sligo, where she co-founded the Scríobh Literary Festival. Her memoir A Restless Life details her difficult upbringing and her experiences in London and Dublin.
The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award is an Irish poetry award for a collection of poems by an author who has not previously been published in collected form. It is confined to poets born on the island of Ireland, or who have Irish nationality, or are long-term residents of Ireland. It is based on an open competition whose closing date is in July each year. The award was founded by the Patrick Kavanagh Society in 1971 to commemorate the poet.
Rory Brennan is an Irish poet, born in Westport, County Mayo. He has worked as a lecturer in Communications at Dublin City University Business School; and also as a presenter and programme-maker in the Education Department of RTÉ Radio. He was Secretary (Director) of Poetry Ireland in the 1980s.
Peter Sirr is an Irish poet, born in Waterford, Ireland. He lives in Dublin where he works as a freelance writer and translator.
Padraig Rooney is an Irish poet, short-story writer and novelist who was born in Monaghan, Ireland.
Christopher Robert Agee is a poet, essayist and editor living in Ireland. He holds dual American and Irish citizenship, and has spent most of his adult life in Ireland. He spends part of each year on the Dalmatian island of Korčula, near Dubrovnik, in Croatia.
Eva Bourke is a German-born Irish poet.
Rosemarie Rowley is an Irish award-winning poet and ecofeminist.
Catherine Ann Cullen is the first Poetry Ireland poet in residence and is a writer.