Irish literature is the body of written works produced in Ireland or by Irish writers. This article discusses Irish literature written in English from about 1690.
it is full of very significant stories in Irish mythology. Bards existed in Ireland during that very same period. Bards were professional poets who served kings and families. Some tend to refer to those bards as Court Poets. They
What I examine here is how these two "works" (volumes I–III and volumes IV–V respectively) can be viewed as engaging one another in a debate on conceptions of Ireland and Irish writing, and how this is reflected in the representation of contemporary women poets in the anthology andtheir...
Famous Poets and Poetic Form Were not the people ofIrelandborn asfreeas those of England? How have they forfeited their Freedom? Is not theirParliamentas fair aRepresentativeof thePeople,as that ofEngland?And hath not theirPrivy Councilas great, or a greater Share in the Administration of publ...
Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘in translating the work of the Gaelic poets into English, she was to influence Thomas Moore and later William Butler Yeats. Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry, published in the year of the French Revolution, was and remains revolutionary’ Sat Mar 07 2015 -...
And let us e’en toast them together. Chorus Let the toast pass,– Drink to the lass, I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the glass. . Here’s to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen Sheridan is buried at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey. ...
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William Butler Yeats was both poet and playwright, a towering figure in 20th-century literature in English, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, a master of traditional verse forms and at the same time an idol of the modernist poets who followed him. ...
Although Bellerophon (whose cult originates in Corinth) is never explicitly linked to any of these youthful gods by ancient writers, it is evident that he fits their category ofsemi-divine culture hero. Such heroes are always (so the tales tell us) in need of a steed, weapons and armour ...