#OTD in 1979 – Death of Eileen Shanahan | one of the small number of Irish women poets.

28/01/2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

Eileen Shanahan (1901-1979) was born in Dublin. She worked as a secretary at the League of Nations in Geneva from 1929 until the invasion of France in 1940. Although she published widely in magazines and anthologies, she never published a collection of her poems during her lifetime and her work remains uncollected. The Three Children […]

‘The Plantation of Ulster’ © Aine Kelly 2016 | All Rights Reserved

23/01/2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

‘The Plantation of Ulster’ © Aine Kelly 2016. All Rights Reserved. We stood and watched the ships as they sailed into the bay, little realising that they’d come to enslave us and take our homes and lands away. I held my newborn baby tight, and stood in defiance of that fearsome sight, little knowing that […]

‘Dedication’ by Patrick MacGill | The Navvy Poet

16/01/2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

‘Dedication’ by Patrick MacGill –The Navvy Poet I speak with a proud tongue of the people who were And the people who are, The worthy of Ardara, the Rosses and Inishkeel, My kindred– The people of the hills and the dark-haired passes My neighbours on the lift of the brae, In the lap of the […]

Nollaig na mBan Shona Daoibh!

06/01/2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

On this day it is the tradition in Ireland for the women to get together and enjoy their own Christmas, while the men folk stay at home and handle all the chores. It is also common for children to help their mothers and grandmothers with household chores and extra help. The Nollaig na mBan […]

‘Winter’ by Tommy Makem

22/12/2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

WINTER, a sharp bitter day the robin turns plump against the cold the sun is weak silver faded from gold he is late in his coming and short in his stay Man, beast, bird and air all purging, all cleansing, earth already purified awaits the rite of spring Her bridal gown a virgin snow and […]

‘Snow’ | by Louis MacNiece

13/12/2022.Reading time 1 minute.

The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window wasSpawning snow and pink roses against itSoundlessly collateral and incompatible:World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think,Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portionA tangerine and spit the pips and feelThe drunkenness of things being various. And the fire […]

‘A Childhood Christmas’ by Patrick Kavanagh

09/12/2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

One side of the potato‑pits was white with frost— How wonderful that was, how wonderful! And when we put our ears to the paling‑post The music that came out was magical. The light between the ricks of hay and straw Was a hole in Heaven’s gable. An apple tree With its December‑glinting fruit we saw […]

‘My Fair Irish Maid’ by Michael Walsh

05/12/2022.Reading time 1 minute.

‘My Fair Irish Maid’ by Michael Walsh Ma Vourneen is language of, A sweet land called Desire, From glens of Donegal to Cork, She sets the heart on fire, There’s beauty in a colleen Blue eyes and auburn hair, Or hair in flame, or Saxon blonde, Much more than heart can bear. There’s a beauty […]

#OTD in 1912 – Birth in Dublin of poet, dramatist and lawyer, Donagh MacDonagh, son of 1916 Easter Rising Leader, Thomas MacDonagh.

22/11/2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

Donagh MacDonagh was a writer, judge, presenter, broadcaster, and playwright. He was still a young child when his father Thomas MacDonagh, an Irish nationalist and poet, was executed in 1916. Tragedy struck again when his mother died of a heart attack a year afterwards while swimming at Skerries to Lambay, Co Dublin on 9 July […]

13/10/2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

‘Gullion: Mountain of Steep Slopes’ © John A. Brennan 2015. All Rights Reserved. They call me Gullion. I am old as time itself, older than the pre-dawn of life, forged in the crucible of a ring of fire, before man existed. Up here the air is pure and fresh and crisp as the frost of […]

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

Tag: Poetry

#OTD in 1979 – Death of Eileen Shanahan | one of the small number of Irish women poets.

Like this:

‘The Plantation of Ulster’ © Aine Kelly 2016 | All Rights Reserved

Like this:

‘Dedication’ by Patrick MacGill | The Navvy Poet

Like this:

Nollaig na mBan Shona Daoibh!

Like this:

‘Winter’ by Tommy Makem

Like this:

‘Snow’ | by Louis MacNiece

Like this:

‘A Childhood Christmas’ by Patrick Kavanagh

Like this:

‘My Fair Irish Maid’ by Michael Walsh

Like this:

#OTD in 1912 – Birth in Dublin of poet, dramatist and lawyer, Donagh MacDonagh, son of 1916 Easter Rising Leader, Thomas MacDonagh.

Like this:

‘Gullion | Mountain of Steep Slopes’ © John A. Brennan 2015. All Rights Reserved.

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Like this: