The ethos, climate and culture of Ireland lends itself to poetry, although it is only in the last hundred years or so that Irish poets have risen to prominence. These are some of the best-loved:
- Seamus Heaney - Blackberry Picking
- Seamus Heaney - Casualty
- Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist
- Seamus Heaney - Digging
- Seamus Heaney - Follower
- Seamus Heaney - Mid-Term Break
- Seamus Heaney - Requiem for the Croppies
- Seamus Heaney - Storm on the Island
- Seamus Heaney - The Railway Children
- Patrick Kavanagh - Canal Bank Walk
- Patrick Kavanagh - In Memory Of My Mother
- Patrick Kavanagh - Stony Grey Soil
- Patrick Kavanagh - The One
- Thomas Kinsella - Free Fall
- Derek Mahon - Dog Days
- Paul Muldoon - A Collegelands Catechism
- Paul Muldoon - Incantata
- Paul Muldoon - Ma
- Paul Muldoon - Pineapples and Pomegranates
- Paul Muldoon - Wind and Tree
- Oscar Wilde - The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- WB Yeats - An Irish Airman forsees his Death
- WB Yeats - Easter 1916
- WB Yeats - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven
- WB Yeats - Leda and the Swan
- WB Yeats - Politics
- WB Yeats - Sailing to Byzantium
- WB Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- WB Yeats - The Second Coming
- WB Yeats - The Song of Wandering Aengus
- WB Yeats - The Stolen Child
- WB Yeats - When You Are Old