Irish poetry
Yeats's literary tradition
Irish poetry spans work in Irish Gaelic and English by poets from Ireland, marked by lyrical intensity, musical language, and themes of landscape, myth, nationalism, and loss.
The tradition runs from ancient bardic verse through Yeats and Heaney to contemporary voices.
She's writing her dissertation on Irish poetry of the Revival period.
- YeatsIrish Nobel poet
- wild swansUndomesticated large waterfowl
- GaelicCeltic linguistic tradition
- famineSevere food shortage
- emigrant shipVessel transporting those leaving home
bardic · Troubles · Easter Rising · postcolonial · folklore · Clarke · oral tradition · mythology · medieval · nationalist · ballad · elegy · quatrain · Kavanagh · exile · harp · music · lament
- Celtic RevivalW.B. Yeats, Celtic art, Celtic music, Celtic mythology, Celtic knotwork
- Irish cultureshamrock, shamrocks, leprechaun, leprechauns, Celtic cross
- Irish LiteratureJames Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Yeats, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett
national/cultural origin
Irish poetryEnglish poetry
Verse in Britain's tongue
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