Padraic Pearse

This poem was written by Patrick Henry Pearse (Pádraic Mac Piarais), 1879–1916.  It is a powerful poem. It comes in at number 96 on the top 100 Irish poems list. …

I was hoping to pick number 17 on the top 100 Irish poems list this week. It is mainly because it is St Patrick’s day, but I realised I had …

This week I picked a top Irish poem from the later half of the top Irish poems list. You can see the top 100 Irish poems list here. If you …

Ireland’s favourite poem, as voted by Irish Times readers, is The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats. The top five are all Yeats, Heaney and Kavanagh: He Wishes …