Trevor Joyce is an Irish poet, born in Dublin.
Pat Boran is an Irish poet.
William "Bill" Wall is an Irish novelist, poet and short story writer.
Thomas McCarthy is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic, born in Cappoquin, County Waterford, Ireland. He attended University College Cork where he was part of a resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of John Montague. Among McCarthy's contemporaries, described by Thomas Dillon Redshaw as "that remarkable generation", were the writers and poets Theo Dorgan, Sean Dunne, Greg Delanty, Maurice Riordan and William Wall. McCarthy edited, at various times, The Cork Review and Poetry Ireland Review. He has published seven collections of poetry with Anvil Press Poetry, London, including The Sorrow Garden, The Lost Province, Mr Dineen's Careful Parade, The Last Geraldine Officer, and Merchant Prince. The main themes of his poetry are Southern Irish politics, love and memory. He is also the author of two novels; Without Power and Asya and Christine. He is married with two children and lives in Cork City where he worked in the City Libraries until his retirement. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1977. His monograph "Rising from the Ashes" tells the story of the burning of the Carnegie Free Library in Cork City by the Black and Tans in 1920 and the subsequent efforts to rebuild the collection with the help of donors from all over the world.
John Montague was an Irish poet. Born in the United States, he was raised in Ulster in the north of Ireland. He published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and two volumes of memoir. He was one of the best-known Irish contemporary poets. In 1998 he became the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry. In 2010, he was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, France's highest civil award.
Gabriel Rosenstock is an Irish writer who works chiefly in the Irish language. A member of Aosdána, he is a poet, playwright, haikuist, tankaist, essayist, and author/translator of over 180 books, mostly in Irish. Born in Kilfinane, County Limerick, he currently resides in Dublin.
John Jordan was an Irish poet and short-story writer.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an Irish poet and academic. She was the Ireland Professor of Poetry (2016–19).
Macdara Woods was an Irish poet.
Gerry Murphy is an Irish poet.
Gregory O'Donoghue (1951–2005) was an Irish poet.
Robert Anthony Welch was an Irish author and scholar.
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.
Poetry Ireland is an organisation for poets and poetry, in both Irish and English, in the island of Ireland. It is a private nonprofit organisation that receives support from The Arts Council of Ireland and The Arts Council of Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1978 by John F. Deane and is based in Parnell Square, Dublin. Its thirtieth anniversary in 2008 was celebrated by events all over Ireland culminating in an event at the Irish College in Paris.
Tony Curtis is an Irish poet.
Hugh Maxton, alias W. J. McCormack, is an Irish poet and academic.
Dedalus Press is one of the major publishers of contemporary poetry in Ireland.
Máighréad Medbh is an Irish writer and poet.
Ciaran O'Driscoll is an Irish poet and novelist born in Callan, County Kilkenny and living in Limerick.
John Shinnors is an Irish landscape artist whose work has become increasingly abstract over time. He is a member of Aosdána and sits as the visual arts representative on EV+A.
