| Introduction |
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KATHARINE TYNAN (1861-1931) |
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Flower of Youth |
1 |
| STEPHEN GWYNN (1864-1950) |
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A Song of Victory
Inscription for a Fountain
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3
7 |
| W.B. YEATS (1865-1939) |
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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
On Being Asked fora War Poem
Easter 1916
Sixteen Dead Men
On a Political Prisoner
Reprisals
from Meditations in Time of Civil War
from Three Songs to the One Burden
Politics |
8
9
9
11
12
13
14
16
17 |
| Æ [George Russell] (1867-1935) |
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On Behalf of Some Irishmen Not Followers of Tradition
Salutation
Continuity
Chivalry
Gods of War
Battle Ardour
Waste
Apocalyptic
Tragedy
Statesmen |
18
19
21
22
23
25
25
26
28
28 |
| EVA GORE-BOOTH (1870-1926) |
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Easter Week
Christmas Eve in Prison
To C.M. on Her Prison Birthday
Comrades
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
Pinehurst |
30
30
31
31
32
33 |
| LORD DUNSANY (1878-1957) |
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The Memorial
A Dirge of Victory
Songs from an Evil Wood
To the Fallen Irish Soldiers
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34
34
35
38 |
| THOMAS McDONAGH (1878-1916) |
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In Absence
After a Year
The Poet Captain
A Dream of Hell
Of a Poet Patriot
For Victory |
39
40
41
42
44
45 |
| WILLIAM ORPEN (1878-1931) |
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The Church, Zillebeke |
46 |
| PADRAIC H. PEARSE (1879-1916) |
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The Mother
The Fool
The Rebel
Christmas 1915
The Wayfarer |
47
48
49
51
52 |
| MARY DAVENPORT O’NEILL (1879-1967) |
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Dead in Wars and in Revolutions |
53 |
| THOMAS KETTLE (1880-1916) |
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To my Daughter, Betty, the Gift of God |
55 |
| BLANAID SALKELD (1880-1959) |
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Casualties |
56 |
| WINIFRED M. LETTS (1882-1972) |
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Hallow-e’en, 1914
The Call to Arms in our Street
Casualty
Screens
The Deserter
Dead |
58
59
60
61
61
63 |
| ARNOLD BAX (DERMOT O’BYRNE) (1883-1953) |
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Martial Law in Dublin
Shells at Oranmore
The Irish Mail
A Dublin Ballad - 1916 |
64
64
65
67 |
| D. L. KELLEHER (1983 1958) |
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An Upper Room |
69 |
| THOMAS CARNDUFF (1886-1956) |
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Graves of Gallipoli
My Land
Messines, 17th June, 1917
Ypres, September, 1917
The Graves of the Unknown |
70
71
72
72
73 |
| JOSEPH MARY PLUNKETT (1887-1916) |
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When I am Dead
The Claim that has the Canker on the Rose
New Love
Before the Glory of your Love
To Grace
See the Crocus’ Golden Cup |
75
75
76
77
77
78 |
| FRANCIS LEDWIDGE (1887-1917) |
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The Call to Ireland
In THE Mediterranean - Going to the War
Thomas McDonagh
After Court Martial
War
To Mrs Joseph Plunkett
A Soldier’s Grave
The Irish in Gallipoli
O’Connell Street
Home |
79
80
80
81
81
82
82
83
83
84 |
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PATRICK MAcGILL (1890-1963) |
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It’s a Far, Far Cry
I Oft Go Out at Night-time
Before the Charge
The London Lads
The Dug-out
A Soldier’s Prayer |
85
86
87
87
88
89 |
| THOMAS MACGREEVY (1893-1967) |
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Nocturne
De Civite Hominum
The Six Who Were Hanged |
90
90
92 |
| AUSTIN CLARKE (1896-1974) |
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The Subjection of Women
Six Sentences
The Last Republicans
from Rightful Rhymes
from Mnemosyne Lay in Dust
At the House of Comment, |
95
98
99
100
101
104 |
| MONK GIBBON (1896-1987) |
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Soldiering
Lost Hopes
lci |
105
106
106 |
| C.S. LEWIS (1898-1963) |
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French Nocturne
Victory
Apology
Death in Battle |
109
110
111
112 |
| EILEEN SHANAHAN (1901-1979) |
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Free State
Pastorale, 1946
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113
113 |
| JIMMY KENNEDY (1902-1984) |
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We’re Going to Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line |
114 |
| PATRICK McDONOGH (1902-1961) |
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Over the Water
War Widow |
115
116 |
| FRANCIS STUART (1902-2000) |
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Morning in a Town under Bombardment
In Time of War
Ireland
The Trees in the Square
Berlin, 1944
Out of the Swim
Coogan’s Wood |
118
118
119
119
120
120
121 |
| EWART MILNE (1903-1987) |
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Speech on Behalf of Inishfail
Thinking of Artolas
The Wind of Bombers Moon
Sierran Vigil |
122
123
125
126 |
| GEORGE BUCHANAN (1904-1989) |
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On Film
On the Dead Killed in Two World Wars
Kilwaughter
Poets of the Nut Century
War Pilot |
128
128
129
131
131 |
| C. DAY LEWIS (1902-1972) |
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Bombers
Newsreel
Watching Post
Where are the War Poets?
The Dead
Will it be so Again?
In the Shelter
Remembering Con Markievicz |
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139 |
| PATRICK KAVANAGH (1902-1967) |
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from The Great Hunger
from Lough Derg
Beyond the Headlines
Epic
I Had a Future |
141
142
143
144
144 |
| PADRAIC FALLON (1905-1974) |
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Heroes 1916
Dardanelles 1916 |
146
147 |
| BRIAN COFFEY (1905-1995) |
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from Death of Hektor |
148 |
| SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989) |
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Saint-Lô |
152 |
| SHEILA WINGFIELD (1900-1992) |
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from Men in War |
153 |
| FREDA LAUGHTON (1907-n.d.) |
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The Bombed House |
162 |
| LOUIS MacNEICE (1907-1963) |
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Aubade
Carrickfergus
from The Closing Album
from Entered in the Minutes
Convoy
Bottleneck
Neutrality
The Atlantic Tunnel |
163
163
165
166
166
167
168
169 |
| RUDDICK MILLAR (1907-1952) |
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The Somme |
170 |
| GEORGE REAVEY (1907-1976) |
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The Sinking of the SS Jutland
The Rape of Europe
Hiroshima and After |
171
176
177 |
| JOHN HEWITT (1907-1987) |
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Portstewart, July 1914
The YCVs and the Ulster Division
Brown’s Bay, Islandmagee, Spring 1917
The Volunteer
Nineteen Sixteen, or the Terrible Beauty
Encounter Nineteen Twenty
To the Memory of James Connolly
The Troubles, 1922
The Prisoners on the Roof
Camaradas y Compañeros
August 1939
Epitaph for a Conscript, 1940
Minor Poet’s Dilemma, 1940
Second Front: Double Summertime, July 1943
Strangers and Neighbours
Ulster Winter (1942)
To the People of Dresden |
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179
180
180
181
181
182
183
183
185
185
185
186
186
189
190 |
| DENIS DEVLIN (1908-1959) |
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Annapolis
The Tomb of Michael Collins
Little Elegy
Concentration Camps |
191
193
195
197 |
| LIAM MacGABHANN (1908-1979) |
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The Roads of Kerry
Connolly |
199
200 |
| W.R. RODGERS (1909-1969) |
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War-time
Escape
The Interned Refugee |
202
202
203 |
| BRYAN McMAHON (1909-1998) |
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Corner Boys |
204 |
| SEÁN JENNETT (1910. n.d) |
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from Always Adam
For Thomas Flanagan
The Letter
Morning
Explosion |
206
215
215
216
217 |
| LESLIE DAIKEN (1912-1964) |
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Nightfall in Galway |
218 |
| DONAGH McDONAGH (1912-1968) |
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He is Dead and Gone, Lady ...
Just an Old Sweet Song |
220
221 |
| CHARLES DONNELLY (1914 1937) |
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The Flowering Bars
The Tolerance of Crows
Poem
Heroic Heart |
222
223
223
224 |
| THOMAS O’BRIEN (1914-1974) |
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Connolly
Beauty We Have Heard Your Voice
Always Battling
Matching Feet
International Brigade Dead
Terror |
226
227
227
228
230
231 |
| GEORGE HETHERINGTON (1916-2001) |
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Sonnet
Las Raices |
232
233 |
| GEORGE M. BRADY (1917-n.d.) |
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The Hosts
The Conquerors
Have You Walked |
234
235
236 |
| VALENTIN IREMONGER (1918-1991) |
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Soldier from the Wars |
237 |
| L.J. FENNESSY (1919-1941) |
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Twenty-Four |
239 |
| MAURICE J. CRAIG (b. 1919) |
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Spring, 1943
Kilcarty to Dublin |
241
242 |
EOGHAN Ó TUAIRISC (1919-1982) |
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as Aifreann na Marbh
from The Mass of the Dead |
244
245 |
| ROBERT GREACEN (1920-2008) |
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Belfast
Spring 1943
Poem Written in September
Poem to K.D.
The Glorious Twelfth
Lament for France
Sunday in County Monaghan, 1935
i.m. Leslie Owen Baxter 1919-1995 |
254
254
255
256
257
258
260
261 |
| ROY McFADDEN (1921-1999) |
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2 September 1939
Post-war
Armistice Day 1938
A Song for Victory Night
Dublin to Belfast: Wartime
Portrush |
262
262
264
264
265
266 |
| BRUCE WILLIAMSON (1922-1991) |
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Homage of War |
267 |
| PADRAIC FIACC (b. 1924) |
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Der Bomben Poet
The Other Man’s Wound
Son of a Gun
Soldiers
The British Connection |
269
270
270
271
273 |
| PATRICK GALVIN (b. 1927) |
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My Father Spoke with Swans
A Day of Rebellion |
275
277 |
| PEARSE HUTCHINSON (b. 1927) |
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The Defeated
Ostfriesland
Judengrasse |
284
285
288 |
| RICHARD MURPHY (b. 1927) |
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Oxford Suitcase
Carlyon Bay Hotel
Wellington College
Suntrap |
290
291
291
292 |
| ANTHONY CRONIN (b. 1928) |
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War Poem
from The End of the Modern World
Encounter |
293
296
300 |
| THOMAS KINSELLA (b.1928) |
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The Laundress
Downstream
38 Phoenix Street |
301
302
306 |
| JOHN MONTAGUE (b. 1929) |
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This Neutral Realm
A Welcoming Party
Waiting
A Bomber’s Moon
A Fertile Balance
from Wreaths
Speech Lesson |
309
311
312
313
314
317
318 |
| JAMES SIMMONS (1933-2001) |
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In the Desert War
Uncle Jack
Remembrance Day
The Use of History
Death of a Poet in Battle-dress
A Man’s a Soldier |
321
322
323
324
324
325 |
| BRENDAN KENNELLY (b. 1936) |
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Old Soldier
Wall
Bomb |
326
327
329 |
| MICHAEL LONGLEY (b. 1939) |
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In Memoriam
Wounds
Master of Ceremonies
Second Sight
Ghetto
In Memory of Charles Donnelly
Ceasefire
Buchenwald Museum
Partisans |
332
334
335
335
336
339
340
341
341 |
| SEAMUS HEANEY (b.1939) |
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England’s Difficulty
Trial Runs
In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge
In the Beech
Anahorish 1944
The Aerodrome |
342
343
343
345
346
347 |
| SEAMUS DEANE (b. 1940) |
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Shelter |
349 |
| DEREK MAHON (b. 1941) |
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from Autobiographies
A Kensington Notebook
One of these Nights
At the Shelbourne
During the War
Barbara |
351
352
357
359
361
363 |
EILÉAN NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN (b. 1942) |
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from Site of Ambush
On Lacking the Killer Instinct |
365
368 |
| EAVAN BOLAND (b. 1944) |
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Yeats in Civil War
The War Horse
A Soldier’s Son
We Were Neutral in the War |
370
371
372
373 |
| PAUL DURCAN (b, 1944) |
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Death Camp
The Jewish Bride
Fjord |
375
376
377 |
| ANTHONY GLAVIN (1945-2006) |
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from Living in Hiroshima |
379 |
| VAN MORRISON (b. 1945) |
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Wild Child |
392 |
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| POSTSCRIPT |
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Samuel Beckett, The Capital of the Ruins |
394 |
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SUGGESTED READING
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX OF POETS
INDEX OF TITLES |
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