[Poets]: Padraic Colum (1881-1972) --
Austin Clarke (1896-1974) --
C. Day Lewis (1899-1963) --
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) --
Louis MacNeice (1907-1953) --
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) --
John Hewitt (1907-1987) --
Máirtin Ó Direáin (1910-1988) --
Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916-1977) --
Padraic Fiacc (1924- ) --
Pearse Hutchinson (1927- ) --
Richard Murphy (1927- ) --
Anthony Cronin (1928- ) --
Thomas Kinsella (1928- ) --
John Montague (1929- ) --
James Simmons (1933-2001) --
Desmond O'Grady (1935- ) --
Brendan Kennelly (1936- ) --
Seamus Heaney (1939- ) --
Michael Longley (1939- ) --
Eamon Grennan (1941- ) --
Michael Hartnett (1941-1999) --
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (1942- ) --
Bernard O'Donoghue (1945- ) --
Ciaran Carson (1948- ) --
Michael Davitt (1950-2005) --
Medbh McGuckian (1950- ) --
Harry Clifton (1952- ) --
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (1952- ) --
Matthew Sweeney (1952- ) --
Thomas McCarthy (1954- ) --
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954- ) --
Mary O'Malley (1954- ) --
Cathal Ó Searcaigh (1956- ) --
Sara Berkeley (1967- ) --
Conor O'Callaghan (1968- ) --
David Wheatley (1970- ) --
Sinéad Morrissey (1972- ).