Songs to Dance, Laugh, Cry and Sing Along To
Poet, songwriter, journalist, and cultural nationalist. Thomas Davis was born on 24 October 1814, in Mallow, Co. Cork. He was the son of a British army surgeon, who died before he was born, and an Irish Protestant mother, Mary Atkins In 1818, the family moved to Dublin where he was enrolled at Mr
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William Butler Yeats was a famous Irish poet, dramatist and one of the pioneers of the literary world in 20th century. The author was also a member of the Irish Senate and served it for two terms. His contribution to the English literature is as high as that to his native the Irish literature, where
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Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ) was an Irish poet, author and one of the most successful playwrights of the Victorian Era. Many of his plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest and Salome are translated in to foreign languages and are adopted into films and poems written by him made their presence
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Patrick Kavanagh ( 1904 - 1967 ) was born on the 21st of October 1904, in the village of Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan. His father was a shoemaker and had a small farm of land. Kavanagh received only primary school education and at the age of thirteen, he became an apprentice shoemaker. He gave it up 15 m
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Seamus Heaney was born on April 13, 1939, in Castledawson, County Derry, Northern Ireland. He earned a teacher's certificate in English at St. Joseph's College in Belfast and in 1963 took a position as a lecturer in English at that school. While at St. Joseph's he began to write, joining a poet
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James Joyce ( 1882 – 1941 ) was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest surviving son of a large middle class family, which after brief prosperity collapsed into poverty. He was educated by the Jesuits, first at Clongowes Wood College in Co. Kildare and then at Belvedere College in Dublin
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