Tom Kettle

To My Darling Daughter Betty is one of those short Irish poems that immediately impact you when you read it. Tom Kettle wrote “To My Daughter Betty” in 1914 at …

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 …