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Born November 23, 1941 • Belfast • Northern Ireland
Died October 2, 2020 (aged 78) • Kinsale • Ireland
Notable Works “Harbour Lights” • “Life on Earth” • “Night-Crossing” • “The Hunt by Night” • “The Snow Party” • “Twelve Poems”
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Louis MacNeice
British poet
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
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Thomas Kinsella
Irish poet
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Eavan Boland
Irish poet and literary critic
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon
Northern Irish poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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John Banim
Irish author
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
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William Morris
British artist and author
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
Colm Toibin stands in a narrow cobblestone alleyway in Mantova, Italy, wearing a gray jacket and black shirt with his hands in his pockets.
Colm TĂłibĂ­n
Irish author
Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
English poet
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist

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