- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Padraic Colum (1881–1972)
- The Plougher
- A Connachtman
- She Moved Through the Fair
- The Poor Girl’s Meditation
- Legend
- Men on Islands
- In the Carolina Woods
- Jackdaw
- Ave Atque Vale
- Odysseus: In Memory of Arthur Griffith
- Roger Casement
- Before the Fair
- Austin Clarke (1896–1974)
- The Frenzy of Suibhne
- from Mnemosyne Lay in Dust: I, II, VI, X, XII, XVIII
- The Healing of Mis
- C. Day Lewis (1899–1963)
- from The Magnetic Mountain: 3, 16, 32, 34
- On Not Saying Everything
- Apollonian Figure
- Ballintubbert House, Co. Laois
- Near Ballyconneely, Co. Galway
- Land
- Kilmainham Jail: Easter Sunday, 1966
- Remembering Con Markievicz
- Sailing from Cleggan
- The Whispering Roots
- Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967)
- Address to an Old Wooden Gate
- Ploughman
- Spraying the Potatoes
- Stony Grey Soil
- The Great Hunger
- Irish Poets Open Your Eyes
- Epic
- Yeats
- Louis MacNeice (1907–1953)
- Belfast
- Turf-Stacks
- Train to Dublin
- Carrickfergus
- from Autumn Journal: XVI, XXIV
- Carrick Revisited
- Coda
- Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
- Whoroscope
- Enueg I
- Something there
- Tailpiece
- John Hewitt (1907–1987)
- Once Alien Here
- Because I Paced my Thought
- O Country People
- Gloss, On the Difficulties of Translation
- Bogside, Derry, 1971
- Mary Hagan, Islandmagee, 1919
- Ars Poetica
- The Last Summer, for Roberta (1975)
- The Glens
- from Freehold: III Townland of Peace
- Máirtin Ó Direáin (1910–1988) (All poems trans. Tomás Mac Síomóin and Douglas Sealey)
- I Will Find Solace
- The Women’s Secret
- Ó Mórna
- Homage to John Millington Synge
- Stout Oars
- The Smirk
- The Eunuchs
- To Ireland in the Coming Times
- Berkeley
- The Yoke of Custom
- The Essence is not in the Living
- Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916–1977)
- Death (trans. Thomas Kinsella)
- Tulyar (trans. Criostoir O’Flynn)
- The Moths (trans. Thomas Kinsella)
- My Mother’s Burial (trans. Patrick Crotty)
- Second Nature (trans. Ciaran Carson)
- Mount Melleray (trans. Patrick Crotty)
- Claustrophobia (trans. Patrick Crotty)
- Fever (trans. Patrick Crotty)
- Padraic Fiacc (1924–)
- Leaving the Monastery
- The Boy and the Geese
- The Let Hell Go of it
- Tenth-Century Invasion
- Orange Man
- More Terrorists
- First Movement
- Vengeance
- Haemorrhage
- The Wearing of the Black
- Son of a Gun
- Our Father
- Icon
- Enemies
- The British Connection
- Elegy for a “Fenian Get”
- A Slight Hitch
- Goodbye to Brigid/an Agnus Dei
- Intimate Letter 1973
- Credo Credo
- Pearse Hutchinson (1927–)
- Eight Frontiers Distant
- Travel Notes
- Fleadh Cheoil
- Gaeltacht
- Bright after Dark
- Movement
- Achnasheen
- The Frost is All Over
- She Fell Asleep in the Sun
- Barnsley Main Seam
- British Justice
- Legend
- Yet Another Reason for Writing in Irish
- Manifesto
- Two Young Men
- River
- Richard Murphy (1927–)
- Sailing to an Island
- The Last Galway Hooker
- from The Battle of Aughrim
- 1. Now
- On Battle Hill
- History
- 2. Before
- Legend
- Planter
- Rapparees
- 3. During
- St Ruth
- The Winning Shot
- Sarsfield
- Luttrell
- Prisoner
- 4. After
- The Wolfhound
- Patrick Sarsfield’s Portrait
- Battle Hill Revisited
- 1. Now
- Seals at High Island
- Coppersmith
- Trouvaille
- Connemara Quay
- Friary
- Anthony Cronin (1928–)
- Writing
- Surprise
- The Elephant to the Girl in Bertram Mills’ Circus
- R.M.S. Titanic
- Homage to the Rural Writers, Past and Present, at Home and Abroad
- Completion
- 1798
- Thomas Kinsella (1928–)
- Echoes
- Baggot Street Deserta
- Nightwalker
- Butcher’s Dozen (1972)
- The Route of The Táin
- Tao and Unfitness at Inistiogue on the River Nore
- At the Western Ocean’s Edge
- Shop Shut
- John Montague (1929–)
- The Water Carrier
- A Drink of Milk
- Old Mythologies
- Forge
- To Cease
- The Country Fiddler
- Like Dolmens Round my Childhood…
- A Lost Tradition
- A Grafted Tongue
- Sweeney
- Killing the Pig
- Herbert Street Revisited
- Guide
- The Family Piano
- White Water
- James Simmons (1933–2001)
- The Not Yet Ancient Mariner
- Macushla, Machree
- Lot’s Wife
- A Muse
- In the Wilderness
- Outward Bound
- Stephano Remembers
- The Publican
- Drowning Puppies
- Epigrams
- On Circe’s Island
- Claudy
- Exploration in the Arts
- Intruder on Station Island
- Night Song from a Previous Life
- Desmond O’Grady (1935–)
- Self Portrait of Reilly as a Young Man
- The Poet in Old Age Fishing at Evening
- Professor Kelleher and the Charles River
- Reading the Unpublished Manuscripts of Louis MacNeice at Kinsale Harbour
- Purpose
- from The Celtic Sura: iii The Poet and his Dog
- from Paraphernalia: Origins
- Kinsale
- Celts in Europe
- Ovid from Exile
- Hugh O’Neill in Rome
- The Poet’s Request
- The Old Head of Kinsale Says
- Brendan Kennelly (1936–)
- James Joyce’s Death-mask
- The Hill of Fire
- The Celtic Twilight
- Good Souls, to Survive
- The Limerick Train
- At the Party
- Union
- The Singing Girl Is Easy in Her Skill
- Clean
- A Holy War
- There Will Be Dreams
- The Big Words
- Service
- Halcyon Days
- A Second’s Eternity
- Lough Derg
- The True Thing
- Home
- Old Irish
- Still to be done
- Seamus Heaney (1939–)
- Digging
- Death of a Naturalist
- The Early Purges
- Follower
- Personal Helicon
- Requiem for the Croppies
- Bogland
- Anahorish
- The Grauballe Man
- Punishment
- Hercules and Antaeus
- from Glanmore Sonnets: II
- The Otter
- Sloe Gin
- Widgeon
- from Station Island: VII, XII
- Wolfe Tone
- from Squarings: iii, viii, xii, xxii, xlviii
- Weighing In
- The Gravel Walks
- The Loose Box
- The Turnip-Snedder
- The Blackbird of Glanmore
- Michael Longley (1939–)
- Epithalamion
- Persephone
- Badger
- Letter to Derek Mahon
- Wounds
- Wreaths
- Second Sight
- Remembering Carrigskeewaun
- An Amish Rug
- Laertes
- Ceasefire
- The White Garden
- The Horses
- An Elegy
- The Rabbit
- The Branch
- Pipistrelle
- Edward Thomas’s Poem
- The Painters
- Leaves
- Seamus Deane (1940–)
- Power Cut
- Derry
- Roots
- Gradual Wars
- The Broken Border
- Shelter
- Osip Mandelstam
- History Lessons
- Guerillas
- Exile’s Return
- Breaking Wood
- Tongues
- Homer Nods
- The Churchyard at Creggan
- Reading Paradise Lost in Protestant Ulster 1984
- Eamon Grennan (1941–)
- A Gentle Art
- In the National Gallery, London
- End of Winter
- Raeburn’s Skater
- Wing Road
- Men Roofing
- Breaking Points
- Kitchen Vision
- The Cave Painters
- Sea Dog
- Women Going
- These Northern Fields at Dusk
- Shed
- To Grasp the Nettle
- Killing the Bees
- Detail
- Michael Hartnett (1941–1999)
- A Small Farm
- Sickroom
- Poor Actaeon
- For My Grandmother, Bridget Halpin
- Bread
- from Anatomy of a Cliché
- 1: Mo ghrá thú
- 2: Te quiero
- 9: “I want you to stand with me…”
- from Thirteen Sonnets: Sonnet 9
- from Notes on My Contemporaries
- 1: The Poet Down
- 2: The Poet as Mastercraftsman
- 3: The Poet as Black Sheep
- 5: The Poet as Woman of Ireland
- 8: The Poet Dreams and Resolves
- Pigkilling
- Death of an Irishwoman
- from “A Farewell to English”: 1, 5, 7
- from Inchicore Haiku: 1, 8, 30, 50, 64, 86, 87
- Mother Earth
- The Killing of Dreams
- Last Aisling
- Derek Mahon (1941–)
- Glengormley
- In Carrowdore Churchyard
- A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
- Courtyards in Delft
- A Garage in Co. Cork
- The Globe in Carolina
- Ovid in Tomis
- Antarctica
- from The Hudson Letter
- I
- VIII, Ovid on West 4th
- X, St. Mark’s Place
- from The Yellow Book
- XIX, On the Automation of the Irish Lights
- The Cloud Ceiling
- New Wave
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (1942–)
- The Absent Girl
- from Site of Ambush
- 1: Reflection
- 6: Voyagers
- 7: Now
- The Second Voyage
- Ferryboat
- Old Roads
- Letter to Pearse Hutchinson
- Séamus Murphy, Died October 2nd 1975
- Wash
- Pygmalion’s Image
- The Liturgy
- The Pig-boy
- St Mary Magdalene Preaching at Marseilles
- Chrissie
- The Architectural Metaphor
- Woman Shoeing a Horse
- Studying the Language
- Anchoress
- Agnes Bernelle, 1923–1999
- Borders
- Gloss/Clós/Glas
- Eavan Boland (1944–)
- Athene’s Song
- The Poets
- New Territory
- Yeats in Civil War
- The War Horse
- The Famine Road
- Suburban Woman
- Making Up
- Mise Eire
- The Achill Woman
- Outside History
- That the Science of Cartography is Limited
- The Pomegranate
- Story
- The Mother Tongue
- Quarantine
- Irish Poetry
- An Elegy for my Mother In Which She Scarcely Appears
- In Coming Days
- Paul Durcan (1944–)
- They Say the Butterfly is the Hardest Stroke
- The Kilfenora Teaboy
- In Memory: The Miami Showband—Massacred 31 July 1975
- The Haulier’s Wife Meets Jesus on the Road Near Moone
- Flower Girl, Dublin
- My Belovèd Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout
- A Snail in My Prime
- Self-Portrait as an Irish Jew
- Lady with Portable Electric Fence
- The Second Coming
- John Ennis (1944–)
- Bright Days
- Circa July 27
- The Croppy Boy
- Villanelle
- A Drink of Spring
- from The Burren Days
- Questions for W. C. Williams
- Deep Ploughing
- Sinking Wells
- Devotees Gathering Round Jim Morrison’s Grave
- from Letter to Connla: “Connla, I’m back…”
- from Telling the Bees: 5 Nirvana
- Old Style Country Funeral
- Bernard O’Donoghue (1945–)
- Poaching Rights
- Lepus Timidus Hibernicus
- Enterprise Culture
- Con Cornie
- The Humours of Shrone
- Madonnas
- Lastworda Betst
- A Noted Judge of Horses
- The Iron Age Boat at Caumatruish
- Nel Mezzo del Cammin
- Staples
- Pied Piper
- Ter Conatus
- The Day I Outlived My Father
- A Candle for Dolly Duggan
- Artistic Block
- Usefulness
- The Potato-Gatherers
- Frank Ormsby (1947–)
- On Devenish Island
- Sheepman
- My Friend Havelock Ellis
- A Small Town in Ireland
- Travelling
- from A Northern Spring
- 1 The Clearing
- 3 Cleo, Oklahoma
- 4 Lesson of the War
- 6 I Died in a Country Lane
- 8 I Stepped on a Small Landmine
- 13 Apples, Normandy, 1944
- 14 They Buried Me in an Orchard
- 15 The Night I Lost World War II
- 18 On Devenish Island
- 35 Some of Us Stayed Forever
- The War Photographers
- The Gatecrasher
- The Gap on my Shelf
- The Graveyard School
- from The Memoirs
- You: The Movie
- Ciaran Carson (1948–)
- Soot
- The New Estate
- Dresden
- Belfast Confetti
- Campaign
- The Exiles’ Club
- Patchwork
- Bloody Hand
- The Ballad of HMS Belfast
- The Rising of the Moon
- Catmint Tea
- Spraying the Potatoes
- Home
- The Forgotten City
- Zugzwang
- Tom Paulin (1949–)
- States
- Thinking of Iceland
- In the Lost Province
- Desertmartin
- Presbyterian Study
- Painting with Sawdust
- Chagall in Ireland
- Not Musical
- August 39
- Michael Davitt (1950–2005)
- In Howth (trans. Philip Casey)
- Joe (trans. Jason Sommer)
- Clay Memories (trans. Philip Casey)
- For Bobby Sands on the Eve of his Death (trans. Michael O’Loughlin)
- The Terrorist (trans. Philip Casey)
- August (trans. Paul Muldoon)
- The Mirror (trans. Paul Muldoon)
- O My Two Palestinians (trans. Philip Casey)
- Third Draft of a Dream (trans. Paul Muldoon)
- To Pound, from God (trans. Paul Muldoon)
- Ceasefire (trans. Louis de Paor and Michael Davitt)
- The Call (trans. Paul Muldoon)
- So Long (trans. Louis de Paor and Michael Davitt)
- Medbh McGuckian (1950–)
- Smoke
- The “Singer”
- The Heiress
- Querencia
- The Blue She Brings with Her
- The Dream-Language of Fergus
- No Streets, No Numbers
- Red Armchair
- Marconi’s Cottage
- Captain Lavender
- Shoulder-Length, Caged-Parrot Earrings
- Self-Portrait in the Act of Painting a Self-Portrait
- The Worship of the Plough
- The Good Wife Taught her Daughter
- The Currach Requires No Harbours
- Peter Fallon (1951–)
- The Lost Field
- Fostering
- My Care
- Caesarean
- Country Music
- The Old Masters
- Windfalls
- Gravities: West
- Birches
- Storm at Sea
- from The Georgics of Virgil
- from Book One
- from Book Two
- from Book Four
- The Company of Horses
- Fair Game
- Paul Muldoon (1951–)
- Wind and Tree
- The Mixed Marriage
- The Boundary Commission
- Why Brownlee Left
- Gathering Mushrooms
- Quoof
- The Mist-Net
- Meeting the British
- from 7, Middagh Street: Wystan
- Milkweed and Monarch
- Incantata
- The Train
- Hard Drive
- The Loaf
- Tithonus
- It Is What It Is
- Harry Clifton (1952–)
- The Walls of Carthage
- The Desert Route
- Monsoon Girl
- Death of Thomas Merton
- The Distaff Side
- Euclid Avenue
- Eccles Street, Bloomsday 1982
- Firefly
- Where We Live
- In Hoc Signo
- Taking the Waters
- The Canto of Ulysses
- The Black Book
- Gerald Dawe (1952–)
- Secrets
- The Desert Campaign
- The Lundys Letter
- Outside Queens
- Carlyle in Ireland
- The Likelihood of Snow/The Danger of Fire
- A Story
- The de facto Territory
- The Third Secret
- Crete Summer
- In Memory of James Joyce
- The Night’s Takings
- Text Messages
- An Evening in the Country
- Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (1952–)
- Abduction (trans. Michael Hartnett)
- Young Man’s Song (trans. Michael Hartnett)
- The Shannon Estuary Welcoming the Fish (trans. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill)
- As for the Quince (trans. Paul Muldoon)
- The Stone Age (trans. Derek Mahon)
- The Smell of Blood (trans. Ciaran Carson)
- Why Bridgid, or Bríd, Never Married (trans. Peter Fallon)
- Aubade (trans. Michael Longley)
- The Language Issue (trans. Paul Muldoon)
- The Crack in the Stairs (trans. Paul Muldoon)
- Cathleen (trans. Paul Muldoon)
- Persephone Suffering from SAD (trans. Medbh McGuckian)
- Ten Ways of Looking at a Magpie (trans. Medbh McGuckian)
- You Are (trans. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin)
- The Prodigal Muse (trans. Medbh McGuckian)
- A Recovered Memory of Water (trans. Paul Muldoon)
- Matthew Sweeney (1952–)
- A Round House
- The Servant
- Captain Marsh
- Preparation for Survival
- Simultaneous Stories
- Relics
- The Lighthouse Keeper’s Son
- Where Fishermen Can’t Swim
- Pink Milk
- Donegal, Arizona
- The Wobble
- An End
- The Bat
- The Volcano
- Guardian of the Women’s Loo in Waterloo
- Animals
- Sweeney
- The UFO
- Exiled
- Frog-Taming
- Thomas McCarthy (1954–)
- Daedalus, the Maker
- Breaking Garden
- Her Blindness
- The Poet of the Mountains
- De Valera’s Childhood
- In Memory of My Father
- A Meeting with Parnell
- The Provincial Writer’s Diary
- Mr Nabokov’s Memory
- The Non-Aligned Storyteller
- Picasso’s “Composition au Papillon”
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- November
- Patrick Street
- Louis MacNeice in America
- The Cappoquin Cricket XI
- Dennis O’Driscoll (1954–)
- Porlock
- Breviary
- Middle-Class Blues
- Normally Speaking
- Man Going to the Office
- 3 AM
- from The Bottom Line: 6, 9, 18, 48, 50
- Talking Shop
- Home
- Tomorrow
- To a Love Poet
- Tulipomania
- The Clericals
- While Stocks Last
- Vigil
- Diversions
- Mary O’Malley (1954–)
- Credo
- The Shape of Saying (ix)
- The Wound
- Canvas Currach II
- Ceres in Caherlistrane
- Pegeen Mike ’s Farewell to the Playboy
- The Boning Hall
- The Ballad of Caitlin and Sean
- Persephone Astray
- PMT—The Movie
- The Wineapple
- Bowbend
- Aillbrack Georgics
- Calypso
- Paula Meehan (1955–)
- from Mysteries of the Home: Well
- The Pattern
- Child Burial
- The Man who was Marked by Winter
- Fruit
- My Father Perceived as a Vision of St Francis
- “Would you jump into my grave as quick?”
- Dharmakaya
- That Night There Was a Full Moon, Little Cloud
- Take a breath. Hold it. Let it go.
- The Bog of Moods
- The Tantric Master
- from Suburb: Desire Path
- A Woman’s Right to Silence
- Death of a Field
- Cathal Ó Searcaigh (1956–)
- The Well (trans. Frank Sewell)
- On Such a Day (trans. Gabriel Fitzmaurice)
- When I Was Three (trans. Thomas McCarthy)
- Sweeney’s Eyes (trans. Frank Sewell)
- Puddle (High Street Kensington, 6 p.m.) (trans. Donald McNamara and Wes Davis)
- A Runaway Cow (trans. Patrick Crotty)
- Buachaill Bán (trans. Frank Sewell)
- After the Epiphany (trans. Donald McNamara and Wes Davis)
- A Fresh Dimension (trans. Gabriel Fitzmaurice)
- The Ruined House in Mín na Craoibhe (trans. Donald McNamara and Wes Davis)
- To Jack Kerouac (trans. Sara Berkeley)
- Lament (trans. Seamus Heaney)
- The Clay Pipes (trans. Seamus Heaney)
- Kathmandu (trans. Frank Sewell)
- The Pink Lily (trans. Frank Sewell)
- Sic Transit (trans. Frank Sewell)
- Peter Sirr (1960–)
- Translations
- Journeying Inland
- Destinations
- “Of the thousand ways to touch you…”
- from Death of a Travel Writer: Some Necessary Equipment
- Cures
- from Pages Ripped from July: Rough Guide to July 18
- from A Journal
- Habitat
- Going Back
- From the Sunken Kingdom
- Settling
- Office Hours
- The Leavetaking of the Ceremonious Traveller
- Vona Groarke (1964–)
- A Tree Called the Balm of Gilead
- Patronage
- Trousseau
- Open House
- Folderol
- The Big House
- Around the Houses
- The Courthouse
- The Couch
- To Smithereens
- The Local Accent
- Archaeology
- Why I Am Not a Nature Poet
- Juniper Street
- Enda Wyley (1966–)
- Love Goes Home
- The House
- The Waitress Has Transformed
- Eating Baby Jesus
- Love Bruise
- Talking to the Bees
- Five Definitions of a Butterfly
- The Soul Kisses Goodbye
- Mint Gatherers
- Emperor
- Women on a Train, Poets in a Room
- Diary of a Fat Man
- Sara Berkeley (1967–)
- Out In the Storm
- Launderette
- Home-Movie Nights
- Emily Dickinson
- Convalescent
- The Courage Gatherer
- Fall
- Fault
- Valley
- Undertow
- Dogwood and Iris
- First Faun
- Patagonia
- Hawkesbury River, NSW
- Venus Awake
- Glaces, Sorbets
- Conor O’Callaghan (1968–)
- September
- The Last Cage House in Drogheda
- Mengele’s House
- The History of Rain
- Pigeons
- The Mild Night
- Silver Birch
- Seatown
- Pitch & Putt
- Ships
- East
- The Count
- The Middle Ground
- Heartland
- Fiction
- from Loose Change
- Signing Off
- Justin Quinn (1968–)
- The ‘O’o’a’a’ Bird
- Instructions
- from Days of the New Republic
- XI Attics
- XVII Ur-Aisling
- XX Geography
- Apartment
- from Six Household Appliances
- Hoover
- Mocha Express
- Poem
- from Fuselage
- Observe the sky…
- I wake early…
- from Prague Elegies: XX
- Pool
- Coffle
- Borscht
- Solstice
- David Wheatley (1970–)
- A Skimming Stone, Lough Bray
- AM Radio
- A Garden In September
- Autumn, the Nightwalk, the City, the River
- from Sonnets to James Clarence Mangan: 1, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14
- Jaywalking
- Poem
- Stan
- Sonnet
- Gable End
- Sinéad Morrissey (1972–)
- The Juggler
- There Was Fire in Vancouver
- English Lesson
- The Fort-Maker
- Restoration
- Tourism
- Street Theatre
- Between Here and There
- To Encourage the Study of Kanji
- Forty Lengths
- from China: 7 “I find I have made a ghost…”
- The Gobi from Air
- Polar
- Zero
- from The State of the Prisons: 2 “God sent an earthquake…”
- Through the Square Window
- Notes to Poems
- Permissions Acknowledgments
- Index of Titles
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
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