"Evie Hone worked in stained glass. Portraitists have included Daniel Maclise, John Lavery, William Orpen (both these War Artists in WWI), John Butler Yeats (father of Jack and William Butler), and Henry Jones Thaddeus. Apart from Francis Bacon, who left Ireland as a young man, the best-known 20th-century Irish artist was Jack Yeats, brother of the poet, also with an individual style that is hard to classify. The art of Seán Keating was poised between Social Realism and Romanticism, and addressed public and political themes in an emerging nation. Irish Modernism began with Mainie Jellett, with later participants being The"
"Willie Wilde William Charles Kingsbury Wilde (26 September 1852 – 13 March 1899) was an Irish journalist and poet of the Victorian era and the older brother of Oscar Wilde. Willie was the oldest son born into an Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Wilde (née Elgee) (her pseudonym being 'Speranza'). Their second son, Oscar, was born in the same house in 1854. Jane Wilde was a successful writer, being a poet for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848 and a lifelong Irish nationalist. Sir William was Ireland's leading Oto-Ophthalmologic"
"(Dublin 1962). Other works included editions of the poetry of Seán Ó Murchada na Ráithineach for the Gaelic League (Dublin 1907), the poetry of Aodhagáin Ó Rathaille (with Pádraig Ó Duinín) for the Irish Text Society (London 1911) and poetry of An tAth Pádraigín Haicéad (Dublin 1916) and the ""Leabhair Clainne Aodha Buidhe I"", for the Manuscripts Commission (Dublin 1931). His brother Eamon O’Donoghue was author of ""Slán le Corcaigh"" and ""Drúcht Geal Ceoidh"", also a professor of Irish in UCC. Another brother, Donncha O’Donoghue, was Parish Priest of Tracton in Cork. His sister, Cáit Ní Dhonnchadha, was an Irish"
"""The Western Island; Or, the Great Blasket"" (1944), illustrated by his wife Ida. The essay collection ""The Irish Tradition"" (1947) is often cited, and was reprinted in 1994; it includes ""Ireland and Medieval Europe"", his ""John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture"" from 1927. Robin Flower Robin Ernest William Flower (16 October 1881 – 16 January 1946) was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist, Anglo-Saxonist and translator from the Irish language. He is commonly known in Ireland as ""Bláithín"" (Little Flower). He was born at Meanwood in Yorkshire, and educated at Leeds Grammar School. His parents, Marmaduke and Jane, were from families"
"iarla anim Shémais""/""Greater than an earl is the name of James"", and the theological poem, ""Fada an cuimhne so ar choir nDe""/""Long be this rememberence on the justice of God"", which consists of one hundred and sixty verses. Uaithne Ó Cobhthaigh Uaithne Ó Cobhthaigh (murdered 1556) was an Irish poet. Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family based in what is now County Westmeath. His father's name was William. According to the Annals of the Four Masters, in 1556 ""Owny, the son of William O'Coffey, the most learned in Ireland in poetry, was treacherously slain at night,"
"which would be woven into James Macpherson's magnum opus, translated and compiling the famous works of Oisín in the early 18th century. He died at Longstone, near Whitechurch, Co. Cork, where he was buried. William was brother to Cornelius Curtain, and the nephew of Fr. Cornelius Curtain. He was survived by his children, Lesa Ní Mhunghaile relates that he had two other sons, and at least one daughter. He was succeeded at the bardic school by Liam Ruadh Mac Coitir. His grandson John MacCurtain (Sean an Duna) appears to have continued that family ties to the bardic school, serving as"
"William Curtain William Curtain, also rendered as 'Uilliam MacCurtain', ""Irish Gaelic: Liam Mac Curtain or Mac Cairteáin an-Dúna"", ""French: Gulielmus Curtain"" (1658-Nov. 1724) was an Irish Poet and Scholar who wrote during the alleged 'Celtic Twilight'. His works remain primarily in print in the Gaelic tongue. While he was a member of the Macartan clan from County Down, and descended from the Chief Eachmilidh Macartan, he is said to have been born in the town on Doon in County Cork, the son of Phelim MacCurtain. However, which 'Doon' this is in Munster a matter of speculation, as it is a"
"Uaithne Ó Cobhthaigh Uaithne Ó Cobhthaigh (murdered 1556) was an Irish poet. Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family based in what is now County Westmeath. His father's name was William. According to the Annals of the Four Masters, in 1556 ""Owny, the son of William O'Coffey, the most learned in Ireland in poetry, was treacherously slain at night, at Baile-an-luig in Magh-bhachla, but it is not known by whom."" The ""Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"" states that ""he was murdered, with his wife, at Ballinlig, Westmeath."" At least two of his poems are extant: ""Mó ná"
"William Henry Ireland William Henry Ireland (1775–1835) was an English forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays. He is less well known as a poet, writer of gothic novels and histories. Although he was apparently christened William-Henry, he was known as Samuel through much of his life (apparently after a brother who died in childhood), and many sources list his name as Samuel William Henry Ireland. Although Ireland claimed throughout his life that he was born in London in 1777, the Ireland family Bible puts his birth two years earlier, on 2 August 1775. His father, Samuel Ireland, was a"
"dramatist and painter William Gorman Wills was his son. James Wills James Wills, (1 January 1790 – November 1868), was an Irish writer and poet. Wills was born in County Roscommon, the younger son of a landowner. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied law in the Middle Temple, London. Deprived, however, of the fortune destined for him and the means of pursuing a legal career by the extravagance of his elder brother, he entered the Church. From 1822 to 1838 he lived in Dublin and wrote in the ""Dublin University Magazine"", ""Blackwood's Magazine"" and other periodicals. He"
"left. William has been confused in the past with William de Blois, who was Bishop of Lincoln in England and died in 1206. This has since been disproven. William of Blois (poet) William of Blois was a French medieval poet and dramatist. He wrote at least one poetical work, which has not survived, and some dramas. Besides being an author, William was also an ecclesiastic, being considered for a Sicilian bishopric and serving as abbot of a monastery in Italy. William was from the Loire Valley, the brother of fellow poet Peter of Blois. While named after Blois, there is"
"children, Dashiel (9) and Bellamie (4). Gabriel Rosenstock, one of Ireland's most notable Irish language poets and member of INNTI with Michael Davitt (Poet), Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Liam Ó Muirthile, is his uncle. Rosenstock's grandfather George was a doctor and writer from Schleswig-Holstein,Germany.He never spoke German again after the war out of shame.He himself escaped the Nazis regime by only one generation,as he had Jewish roots.His grandmother was a nurse from Athenry, County Galway. Mario Rosenstock Mario Rosenstock (born 31 August 1971) is an Irish actor, comedian, impressionist and musician. Rosenstock first came to the attention of the Irish"
"leasa"" ""An tAodhaire Óg"", can be found in Ó Foghludha. Others such as ""An sean-duine Seóirse"" can be found in O'Brien. Liam Inglis Liam Inglis (1709–1778) was a Gaelic-Irish poet and priest. Ó Ciardha describes ""Priest-poets such as Liam Inglis, Seán Ó Briain, Conchubhar Ó Briain, Domhnall Ó Colmáin and Uilliam mac Néill Bhacaigh Ó hIarlaithe"" as ""the heirs of Seathrún Céitinn and Pádraigín Haicéad who had emerged as major political voices in the seventeenth century. The promoted the Stuart cause, which was an intrinsic feature of Irish Catholic nationalist identity until at least 1760. (p. 50, 2001) In ""Atá"
"physicist George Stoney introduced the idea and the name of the electron. He was the uncle of another notable physicist, George FitzGerald. The Irish bardic system, along with the Gaelic culture and learned classes, were upset by the plantations, and went into decline. Among the last of the true bardic poets were Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig (c. 1580–1652) and Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (1625–1698). The Irish poets of the late 17th and 18th centuries moved toward more modern dialects. Among the most prominent of this period were Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta, Peadar Ó Doirnín, Art Mac Cumhaigh, Cathal Buí Mac Giolla"
"in his poetry “a stark view of an Islay in which the human world has been all but banished from the natural landscape.” Examples of William Livingston’s work may be viewed in the Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry. William Livingston (poet) The poet William Livingston (1808–1870) is also known by his family’s original Gaelic language surname as Uilleam Macdhunleibhe. Born to his family’s lore in Islay in the Scottish Highlands, Livingston was a hyper patriotic Gaelic author of epic poetry. An autodidact, he was a tailor by trade, yet he taught himself the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French and Welsh languages"
"work from ""Woe to the Boy"". These images were widely exhibited in Ireland in 1985 and 1986. Padraic Fiacc Padraic Fiacc (born Patrick Joseph O'Connor; 15 April 1924, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish poet, and member of Aosdána, the exclusive Irish Arts Academy. Born Patrick Joseph O'Connor in Belfast to Bernard and Annie (née McGarry) O'Connor, Fiacc's father was a barman who left for the United States when Fiacc was very young. Fiacc resided with his maternal grandparents who had recently moved to the Markets area of South Belfast after being burned out of their home in Lisburn in"
"right to use the Red Hand of Ulster (see Flag of Ulster) as an emblem. ""Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature"", Robert Welsh, 1996. Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird, fl. 1670, was an Irish poet. A son of Laoiseach Mac an Bhaird, Diarmaid was a member of the Clann Mac an Bhaird and one of the last classically trained bardic ""file"" (poet). He appears to have lived in what is now County Monaghan though he clearly had associations with Clandeboye, as a poem he addressed to Cormac Ó Neill is preserved in Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe. He"
"of Fiacha Mag Eochagáin. Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1446) was an Irish poet. A brother of Maeleachlainn Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1429) and a son of An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1415), Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family. However, he was also famous as a soldier. One of his surviving poems, "" T'aire riot, a mheic Mhurchaidh"" – addressed to the Mac Murchadha Caomhánach – urges the men of Leinster to resist the Anglo-Irish. He was killed, along with his two sons, on the island of Cróinis on Lough Ennell, by Art Ó Mael"
"William Rooney William Rooney (; 29 September 1873–6 May 1901), also known as Fear na Muintire, was an Irish nationalist, journalist, poet and Gaelic revivalist. Along with Arthur Griffith and Denis Devereux he founded the Celtic Literary Society, and with Griffith founded the first Cumann na nGaedheal. William Rooney was born in Mabbot Street in Dublin, Ireland and educated by the Christian Brothers in Strand Street and North Richmond Street. As a boy he was a member of ""The Irish Fireside Club"", a literary discussion group, where he became acquainted with Arthur Griffith around 1888. They joined the Leinster Debating"
"William Dunkin William Dunkin, D.D. (1709?–1765), was an Irish poet. William Dunkin was born in Dublin in around 1709. His parents died when he was young and he was left in early life to the charge of Trinity College, Dublin, by an aunt who left her property to the college with the condition that it should provide for his education and advancement in life. He took his B.A. degree in 1729, and D.D. in 1744. As a young man he had a reputation for foolish acts and clever poems. He was introduced to Jonathan Swift, who became at once a"
"though his creative period was cut short by illness. His brother Séamus Ó Grianna (1889–1969) was more prolific. This period also saw remarkable autobiographies from the remote Irish-speaking areas of the south-west – those of Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1858–1937), Peig Sayers (1873–1958) and Muiris Ó Súilleabháin (1904–1950). Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970), a language activist, is generally acknowledged as the doyen (and most difficult) of modern writers in Irish, and has been compared to James Joyce. He produced short stories, two novels and some journalism. Máirtín Ó Direáin (1910–1988), Máire Mhac an tSaoi (b. 1922) and Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916–1977) were"
"William Drennan William Drennan (23 May 1754 – 5 February 1820) was an Irish physician, poet and political radical, who was one of the chief architects of the Society of United Irishmen. He is known as the first to refer in print to Ireland as ""the emerald isle"" in his poem """"When Erin first rose"""". William was son to Reverend Thomas Drennan (1696–1768), minister of Belfast's First Presbyterian Church on Rosemary Street, where William was born in 1754. Thomas Drennan was an educated man from the University of Glasgow and was ordained to the congregation of Holywood, county Down in"
"Friends"" is a collection of some of Wright's poetry published in 2001 and dedicated to his brother, Robert, who, at age 47, had died suddenly the same year. Finbar Wright Edward Finbar Wright (born 26 September 1957), known popularly as Finbar Wright, is a popular music singer, songwriter, and poet from County Cork, Ireland. Wright is a classically trained tenor who emerged during the 1990s in Ireland and has become one of that country's ""most popular singers"", concentrating on romantic, jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience. Referred to as one of Ireland's great romantic singers, his first"
"Robin Flower Robin Ernest William Flower (16 October 1881 – 16 January 1946) was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist, Anglo-Saxonist and translator from the Irish language. He is commonly known in Ireland as ""Bláithín"" (Little Flower). He was born at Meanwood in Yorkshire, and educated at Leeds Grammar School. His parents, Marmaduke and Jane, were from families with Irish ancestry. He was awarded a scholarship to study Classics at Pembroke College, Oxford and graduated with first honours in 1904, before obtaining work as an assistant in the British Museum in 1906. It was during his early years at"
"Brian Merriman Brian Merriman or in Irish Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (c. 1747 – 27 July 1805) was an Irish language poet and teacher. His single surviving work of substance, the 1000-line long (The Midnight Court) is widely regarded as the greatest comic poem in the history of Irish literature. Merriman in an oral account collected after his death was said to have been born illegitimately in Clondagad or Ennistymon, County Clare. His mother was surnamed Quilkeen and his father's identity remains unknown. Shortly after his birth, his mother married a stonemason who was working on the walls of the"
"on course; in a ceremony that was entirely convincing and contemporary, Orpheus has been remembered in Ireland."" Brian Merriman Brian Merriman or in Irish Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (c. 1747 – 27 July 1805) was an Irish language poet and teacher. His single surviving work of substance, the 1000-line long (The Midnight Court) is widely regarded as the greatest comic poem in the history of Irish literature. Merriman in an oral account collected after his death was said to have been born illegitimately in Clondagad or Ennistymon, County Clare. His mother was surnamed Quilkeen and his father's identity remains unknown."
"John O'Higgin John O'Higgin (""Sean Ua h-Uiccinn""; modern , died 1490), was an Irish poet. A member of the O'Higgin family of historians, scribes, and poets, his obituary in the ""Annals of the Four Masters"" describes him as the ""Chief Port of Ireland"" when he died in 1490. A son of Farrell Oge, he had known siblings Elec Ní hUicinn (murdered 1471) and Niall mac Fergal Óge Ó hUicinn (died 1461). A manuscript held in Trinity College Library, Dublin (1346 4to, min. chart., a.d. i 726-1750. h. 4. 4.) has a poem by him on page 141, commencing ""Cia cenncup"
"William of Blois (poet) William of Blois was a French medieval poet and dramatist. He wrote at least one poetical work, which has not survived, and some dramas. Besides being an author, William was also an ecclesiastic, being considered for a Sicilian bishopric and serving as abbot of a monastery in Italy. William was from the Loire Valley, the brother of fellow poet Peter of Blois. While named after Blois, there is no documentary evidence that either brother was born there. The family's origins may have been in Brittany. The family, which also included sisters, had some nobility if not"
"Sean mac Fergail Óicc Ó hÚigínn Sean mac Fergail Óicc Ó hUiccinn (died 1490) was an Irish poet. Ó hUiccinn was an Irish poet who held the post of Chief Ollam of Ireland. His father was Farrell Óg Ó hUiccinn. His obituary is given in the Annals of the Four Masters as follows: ""M1490.16 O'Higgin, i.e. John, the son of Farrell Oge, Chief Poet of Ireland, died."" His surname is now anglicised Higgins. His sister, Elec Ní hUicinn, was murdered in 1471. He had at least one other sibling, Niall mac Fergal Óge Ó hUicinn, who died in 1461. A"
"Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in 1998 and the Jerwood Gallery in 2013. William Scott (artist) William Scott (15 February 1913 – 28 December 1989) was a British artist, known for still-life and abstract painting. He is the most internationally celebrated of 20th-century Ulster painters. William Scott was born in Britain on 15 February 1913, in Greenock, Scotland, to Scots-Irish parents, in 1924 his family moved with his mother, Agnes to Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, to join his father in his native town. His father was a housepainter and signwriter, and was killed in an accident in 1927"
"first to Nancy Tollet then to Maire Ní Mhóráin. With Maire he had two children, Mary and Richard Barrett. Coláiste Riocard Bairéad is named after him. The Irish summer college belongs to Gael Linn Riocard Bairéad Riocard Bairéad (Anglicised as ""Richard Barrett"") (b. 1740 – d. 1819 according to his grave), was a poet and United Irishman. Some sources say that he was born in 1739 or 1740 and died either in 1818 or on December 8 or 18th, 1819. Bairéad worked as a teacher and small farmer. Known in his lifetime as the ""Poet of Erris"", Bairéad was notable"
"Æ, Yeats and his artist brother Jack, George Moore, Seán O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Katharine Tynan and Violet Martin. Yeats wrote five poems about, or set in, the house and grounds: ""The Wild Swans at Coole"", ""I walked among the seven woods of Coole"", ""In the Seven Woods"", ""Coole Park, 1929"" and ""Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931"". Lady Gregory, whom Shaw once described as ""the greatest living Irishwoman"", died at home aged 80 from breast cancer, and is buried in the New Cemetery in Bohermore, County Galway. The entire contents of Coole Park were auctioned three months after her death,"
"Samuel Ireland Samuel Ireland (21 May 1744 – July 1800), English author and engraver, is best remembered today as the chief victim of the Ireland Shakespeare forgeries created by his son, William Henry Ireland. He began life as a weaver in Spitalfields, London, but soon took to dealing in prints and drawings and devoted his leisure to teaching himself drawing, etching, and engraving. He made sufficient progress to obtain a medal from the Society of Arts in 1760. In 1784 he appears as an exhibitor for the first and apparently only time at the Royal Academy, sending a view of"