Anthologies of Irish Poetry
Thomas Kinsella New Oxford Book of Irish Verse
(Oxford)
Keith Tuma Anthology of Twentieth-Century British
and Irish Poetry (Oxford)
John Montague Faber Book of Irish Verse (Faber)
Paul Muldoon Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (Faber)
Micheal Longley 20th Century Irish Poems (Faber)
Peter Fallon & Derek Mahon Penguin Book of Irish
Contemporary Poetry (Penguin)
Brendan Kennelly The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (Penguin)
S. Armitage & R. Crawford The Penguin Book of Poetry
from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (Penguin)
Andrew Motion & T. Morrisson Penguin Book of Contemporary
British Poetry (Penguin)
Selina Guinness The New Irish Poets, (Bloodaxe)
Sean O'Brien The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland
after 1945 (Picador)
Gerald Dawe The Younger Irish Poets (Blackstaff)
Gerald Dawe The New Younger Irish Poets (Blackstaff)
Patrick Crotty Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology (Blackstaff)
John F Deane Dedalus Irish Poets (Dedalus)
Frank Ormsby Poets from the North Of Ireland (Blackstaff)
Frank Ormsby The Hip Flask: Short Poems from Ireland (Blackstaff)
Kathleen Hoagland 1000 Years of Irish Poetry (Welcome Rain)
Anthony Bradley Contemporary Irish Poetry (California Press)
WJ McCormack Ferocious Humanism Anthology of Irish Poetry
from before Swift to Yeats and After (Dent)
Niall MacMonagle Slow Time:100 Poems to Take you There (Marino)
Niall MacMonagle Real Cool: Poems to Grow Up With (Marino)
Niall MacMonagle Off the Wall (Marino)
Sebastion Barry The Inherited Boundaries, Younger Poets
of the Republic of Ireland (Dolmen)
John Montague Bitter Harvest, an anthology of Irish Poetry
(Scribners)
John Macnamee Out to Lunch (BOI Arts Centre)
Colm Toibin Irish Times Book of favourite Irish Poems (Irish
Times Books)
Wesley College Lifelines (Penguin)
Niall MacMonagle Lifelines 2: Letters from Famous People
(Town House)
N. McLoughlin & M. Fluharty Breaking the Skin: 21st
Century Irish Writing (Volume 2) (Black Mountain)
Neil Astley Poetry with an Edge (Bloodaxe)
Edna Longley The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry
(Bloodaxe)
Neil Astley Staying Alive: Real poems for Unreal Times
(Bloodaxe)
Peggy O'Brien Wake Forest Book of Irish Women Poetry 1967-2000
(Wake Forest)
Joan McBreen The White Page / An Bhileog Bhan: Twentieth-Century
Irish Women Poets (Salmon)
T. Dorgan and N. Duffy Watching the River Flow (Poetry Ireland)
Maurice Harmon Irish Poetry after Yeats (Wolfhound)
Gabriel Fitzmaurice Irish Poetry Now: Other Voices (Wolfhound)
A.A. Kelly Pillars of the House: An Anthology of Verse
by Irish Women From 1690 to the Present (Wolfhound)
John F.Deane Irish Poetry of Faith and Doubt, The Cold Heaven
(Wolfhound)
Peter Fallon and Sean Golden Soft Day: A Miscellany
of Contemporary Irish Writing (Wolfhound)
R. Wilson and F. Somerville-Arjat Sleeping with Monsters,
Conversations with Scottish and Irish Women Poets (Wolfhound)
S. Cashman and B. Quinn The Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems
for Young People (Wolfhound)
Sean Dunne Poets of Munster: An Anthology (Midpoint)
Dermot Bolger An Tonn Gheal: The Bright Wave (Raven Arts)
Seamus Deane The Field Day Anthology (W.W. Norton)
T. Swift and M. Mooney Map Makers' Colours: New Poets of
Northern Ireland (Nu-Age)
Frank Ormsby A Rage for Order: Poetry of the Northern Ireland
Troubles (Blackstaff)
D. Kiberd and G. Fitzmaurice An Crann Faoi Bhláth:
The Flowering Tree (Wolfhound)
Greagoir O Duill Fearann Pinn: Filiocht 1900 -1999 (Coisceim)
Louis Bell Remembered Kisses: An Illustrated Anthology of
Irish Love Poetry (Gill & Macmillan)
Peter Davidson Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British
and Irish Verse (Oxford)
K. Donovan, A.N. Jeffares and B Kennelly Ireland's Women,
Writings Past and Present (Gill & Macmillan)
Sean Dunne The Cork Anthology (Cork University)
Sean Dunne The Ireland Anthology (Gill & Macmillan)
Davin Garrity The New Mentor Book of Irish Poetry Ireland
(Mentor)
Jim Kemmy The Limerick Anthology (Gill & Macmillan)
Brendan Kennelly Between Innocence and Peace; Favourite
poems of Ireland (Mercier)
Sean McMahon 1000 Years of Poetry: A Millenial Anthology
(Marino)
Sean Mc Mahon The Derry Anthology (Blackstaff)
I. MacDonald M. Collins Sruth na Maoile: Modern Gaelic
poetry from Scotland and Ireland (Coisceim)
Eilis Ní Dhuibhne Voices on the Wind: Women Poets
of the Celtic Twilight (New Island)
T. Kinsella and S. Ó Tuama An Duanaire 1600-1900:
Poems of the Dispossessed (Irish Books)
Adrian Rice Signals: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Abbey
Press)
Adrian Rice and Angela Reid A Conversation Piece (Abbey
Press)
James Simmons Soundings (Blackstaff)
Ailbhe Smyth Wildish Things: Anthology of Women's Poems
(Attic)
Mark Storey Poetry and Ireland Since 1800: A Source Book
(Routledge)
Shaun Traynor The Poolbeg Book of Irish Poetry for Children
(Poolbeg)
W.B. Yeats A book of Irish Verse from Modern Writers (Methuen)
W.B. Yeats The Oxford of Modern Verse (Claredon)
John Brown Magnetic North: The Emerging Poets (Lagan Press)
Prose on Irish Poetry
Elmer Andrews (editor) CONTEMPORARY IRISH POETRY:
A Collection of Critical Essays (Macmillan, 1992)
Eavan Boland OBJECT LESSONS: The Life of the Woman and the
Poet in Our Time (Carcanet, 1995)
Terence Brown IRELAND'S LITERATURE: Selected Essays (Lilliput
Press, 1988)
Terence Brown and Nicholas Grene (editors) TRADITION AND
INFLUENCE IN ANGLO-IRISH POETRY (Macmillan, 1989)
Neil Corcoran THE CHOSEN GROUND: Essays on the Contemporary
Poetry of Northern Ireland (Seren Books, 1992)
POETS OF MODERN IRELAND (University of Wales Press, 1999)
Patricia Coughlan and Alex Davis (editors) MODERNISM AND IRELAND:
The Poetry of the 1930s (Cork University Press, 1995)
Gerald Dawe STRAY DOGS AND DARK HORSES: Selected Essays
on Irish Writing and Criticism (Abbey Press, 2000)
Seamus Deane CELTIC REVIVALS: Essays in Modern Irish Literature
(Faber, 1985)
A SHORT HISTORY OF IRISH LITERATURE (Hutchinson, 1986).
Theo Dorgan (editor) IRISH POETRY SINCE KAVANAGH (Four Courts
Press, 1996)
Douglas Dunn (editor) TWO DECADES OF IRISH WRITING: A Critical
Survey (Carcanet, 1975)
John Goodby IRISH POETRY SINCE 1950 (Manchester University
Press, 2000)
Robert Greacen ROOTED IN ULSTER: Nine Northern Writers (Lagan
Press, 2000)
Eamon Grennan FACING THE MUSIC: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth
Century (Creighton University Press, 1999)
Patricia Boyle Haberstroh (editor) MY SELF, MY MUSE: Irish
Women Poets Reflect on Life and Art (Syracuse University Press, 2001)
Maurice Harmon and Roger McHugh A SHORT HISTORY OF ANGLO-IRISH
LITERATURE (Wolfhound Press, 1982)
Seamus Heaney FINDERS KEEPERS: Selected Prose (Faber, 2002)
THE PLACE OF WRITING (Scholars Press, 1989)
Ben Howard THE PRESSED MELODEON: Essays on Modern Irish Writing
(Story Line Press, 1996)
Dillon Johnston IRISH POETRY AFTER JOYCE (Syracuse University
Press, 1997)
Michael Kenneally (editor) POETRY IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH
LITERATURE (Colin Smythe, 1995)
Brendan Kennelly JOURNEY INTO JOY: Selected Prose (Bloodaxe
Books, 1994)
Declan Kiberd IRISH CLASSICS (Granta Books, 2000)
Thomas Kinsella THE DUAL TRADITION: An Essay on Poetry and
Politics in Ireland (Carcanet, 1995)
Edna Longley POETRY IN THE WARS (Bloodaxe Books, 1986)
THE LIVING STREAM: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (Bloodaxe Books, 1994)
POETRY AND POSTERITY (Bloodaxe Books, 2000)
Sean Lucy (editor) IRISH POETS IN ENGLISH (Mercier Press,
1973)
Derek Mahon JOURNALISM: Selected Prose (Gallery Press, 1996)
Christina Hunt Mahony CONTEMPORARY IRISH LITERATURE: Transforming
Tradition (St. Martin's Press, 1998)
Thomas McCarthy GARDENS OF REMEMBRANCE (New Island Books,
1998)
Peter McDonald MISTAKEN IDENTITIES: Poetry and Northern
Ireland (Oxford University Press, 1997)
John Montague THE FIGURE IN THE CAVE (Lilliput Press, 1989)
Paul Muldoon TO IRELAND, I (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Sean O'Brien THE DEREGULATED MUSE: Essays on Contemporary
British and Irish Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 1998)
Dennis O'Driscoll TROUBLED THOUGHTS, MAJESTIC DREAMS: Selected
Prose Writings (Gallery Press, 2001)
Michael O'Loughlin AFTER KAVANAGH (Raven Arts Press, 1985)
Seán Ó Tuama REPOSSESSIONS: Selected Essays
on the Irish Literary Heritage (Cork University Press, 1995)
Robert Welch (editor) THE OXFORD COMPANION TO IRISH LITERATURE
(Oxford University Press, 1996)
Margaret Kelleher & Philip O'Leary (editors) THE CAMBRIDGE
HISTORY OF IRISH LITERATURE: 2 Volume Set (Cambridge University Press, 2006)