Traditions, folklore, history and more. If it's Irish, it's here. Or will be!

"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."
-Edmund Burke

Quotes

Library: Books, Movies, Music

Prints & Photos

Poetry

Jokes

Bunús na Gaeilge
(Basic Irish)

Circle of Prayer

Blessings

Did You Know?

Awards & Testimonials

Submissions Guide

Help keep us free
Throughout the site you will see many items available for purchase from well-known merchants such as Amazon. Not interested in what we're featuring? It doesn't matter. Click on any link and then shop for whatever you wish - we will still get credit, if you buy something.
Thanks for your help.

Index of Poems and Songs by Title

Note: Wherever a poem title begins with 'A' or 'The', it is dropped.
This is to provide for our fuzzy minds. The sorting then, would be more likely to fit our instincts. For example:
Christmas Childhood,A by Patrick Kavanagh

We have two other index listings: Poems Indexed by Rank (in the Irish Times 100 favorites) and an Index of the poets - by name.


Across the Door - by Padraic Colum
Advent - by Patrick Kavanagh
All Legendary Obstacles - by John Montague
All in the Family Way - Thomas Moore
All Souls - by Katharine Tynan
Among Schoolchildren - by W. B. Yeats
An Bonnán Buí - by Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death - by W. B. Yeats
An Old Woman of the Roads - by Padraic Colum
An tEarrach Thiar (The Late Spring) - by Máirtín Ó Direáin
Anois Teacht an Earraigh(Cill Aodain) - by Antoine Ó Raifteirí
Another September - by Thomas Kinsella
Any Woman - by Katharine Tynan
At the Seminar - by Dennis O'Driscoll
Autumn Journal - by Louis MacNeice
Ballad of Father Gilligan,The - by W. B. Yeats
Ballad of Reading Gaol,The - by Oscar Wilde
Bean Sléibhe ag Caoineadh a Mhac - by Pádraig Mac Piarais (Padraic Pearse)
Blackberry-Picking - by Seamus Heaney
Blackbird of Derrycairn,The - by Austin Clarke
Blessing - by John Montague
Breastplate - Saint Patrick (attrib.)
Brigid's Girdle - for Adele, A - by Seamus Heaney
Broken Dreams - by W. B. Yeats
Canal Bank Walk - by Patrick Kavanagh
Caoineadh Áirt Úi Laoghaire - by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill
Casualty - by Seamus Heaney
Christmas Childhood,A - by Patrick Kavanagh
Christmas Day - by Paul Durcan
Cill Chais - by Aodhagán Ó Rathaille
Circus Animals' Desertion,The - by W. B. Yeats
Cissy Young's - by Paul Durcan
Clearances - by Seamus Heaney
Conversation with a Garada on Grafton Street - by Pat Ingoldsby
Cradle Song,A - by Padraic Colum
The Crane - by Padraic Colum
Cry of the Deer - Saint Patrick (attrib.)
Cuírt an Mheán Óiche (The Midnight Court) - by Brian Merriman
Cúl an Tí - by Seán Ó Ríordáin
Dark Rosaleen - by James Clarence Mangan
Dead Coach, The - by Katharine Tynan
Death of a Naturalist - by Seamus Heaney
Death of an Irishwoman - by Michael Hartnett
Deserted Village,The - by Oliver Goldsmith
Digging - by Seamus Heaney
Disused Shed in Co Wexford,A - by Derek Mahon
Down by the Sally Gardens - by W. B. Yeats
Drover,A - by Padraic Colum
Dublin - by Louis MacNeice
Easter,1916 - by W. B. Yeats
Ecce Puer - by James Joyce
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An - by Oliver Goldsmith
Elopement - by F.R.Higgins
Epic - by Patrick Kavanagh
Faeries,The - by William Allingham
Farewell to English, A - Michael Hartnett
Father and Son - by F.R. Higgins
Fiddler of Dooney,The - by W. B. Yeats
Fisherman,The - by W. B. Yeats
Flowers of Youth - by Katharine Tynan
Follower - by Seamus Heaney
Fool,The - by Padraic Pearse
For Rita With Love - by Pat Ingoldsby
Going Home to Mayo - by Paul Durcan
The Golden Hook - by John Montague
A Good Trick if You can Do It - by Pat Ingoldsby
At the Galway Races - by W. B. Yeats
A Grafted Tongue - by John Montague
Great Hunger,The - by Patrick Kavanagh
Harvest Bow, The - by Seamus heaney
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - by W. B. Yeats
Heat Wave - by Dennis O'Driscoll
Host of the Air,The - by W. B. Yeats
I See His Blood upon the Rose - by Joseph Mary Plunkett
In Memory of my Mother - by Patrick Kavanagh
Incantata - by Paul Muldoon
Inniskeen Road, July Evening - by Patrick Kavanagh
June - by Francis Ledwidge
Lament for Thomas McDonagh - by Francis Ledwidge
Lake Isle of Innisfree,The - by W. B. Yeats
Leda and the Swan - by W. B. Yeats
Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin, 'Erected to the Memory of Mrs Dermot O'Brien' - by Patrick Kavanagh
Lorica - Saint Patrick (attrib.)
A Lost Tradition - by John Montague
Lost Heifer,The - by Austin Clarke
Magi,The - by W.B. Yeats
Meeting of the Waters,The - by Thomas Moore
Mid-Term Break - by Seamus Heaney
Mirror in February - by Thomas Kinsella
Missing God - Dennis O'Driscoll
Mise Éire - by Pádraig Mac Piarais (Padraic Pearse)
Mise Raifteirí an File - by Antoine Ó Raifteirí
Mother,The - by Padraic Pearse
Muineen Water - by F.R. Higgins
Night Feed - by Eavan Boland
Oíche Nollag na mBan - by Seán Ó Ríordáin
No Music - by John Montague
On Raglan Road - by Patrick Kavanagh
O You Among Women - by F.R. Higgins
Padraig Ó Conaire, Gaelic Storyteller - by F.R. Higgins
Pangur Bán - by Anonymous
Papisher and the Prod, The - John McKearney
Pegasus - by Patrick Kavanagh
Personal Helicon - by Seamus Heaney
Pint of Plain is Your Only Man,A - by Flann O'Brien
Planter's Daughter,The - by Austin Clarke
Poet as Black Sheep, The - Michael Hartnett
Postscript - by Seamus Heaney
Prayer for my Daughter,A - by W. B. Yeats
Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland - by W. B. Yeats
Requiem for the Croppies - by Seamus Heaney
Retaliation - by Oliver Goldsmith
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - by Edward FitzGerald
Sailing to Byzantium - by W. B. Yeats
Second Coming,The - by W. B. Yeats
September,1913 - by W. B. Yeats
She Moved Through the Fair - by Padraic Colum
Sheep and Lambs - by Katharine Tynan
Siberia - by James Clarence Mangan
Snow - by Louis MacNeice
Soap Suds - by Louis MacNeice
Song of Wandering Aengus,The - by W. B. Yeats
Spirit of the Summertime - by William Allingham
Splendour of God,The - by Joseph Mary Plunkett
Spraying the Potatoes - by Patrick Kavanagh
Station Island - by Seamus Heaney
Stolen Child,The - by W. B. Yeats
Stony Grey Soil - by Patrick Kavanagh
Strand, The - by Louis MacNeice
Tower, The - by W. B. Yeats
There are Days - by John Montague
The Minstral Boy - by Thomas Moore
Tis the last rose of summer - by Thomas Moore
To a Child Dancing in the Wind - by W. B. Yeats
To My Darling Daughter Betty - by Tom Kettle
Turn O' the Year - by Katharine Tynan
Twilight Turns to Amethyst - by James Joyce (II from Chamber Music).
Up and Down the Strip - by Pat Ingoldsby
Uprooting - by John Montague
Under Ben Bulben - by W. B. Yeats
Valparaiso - by Pádraig de Brún
Vultures - by Padraic Colum
Wayfarer,The - by Padraic Pearse
When You are Old - by W.B. Yeats
Wild Swans at Coole,The - by W. B. Yeats
Wind that Shakes the Barley,The - by Katharine Tynan
Woodman - by Patrick Deeley
Woman of Three Cows - by James Clarence Mangan

The following are poems submitted by readers or whimsey. You should not expect great literature. We have them for the craic or the sentiment.
Paddy Murphy  by David Sissons
The Papisher and the Prod by Anonymous
A Dublin Lady by David Sissons
Tribute to the Queen of the May, A - Anonymous

Miscellaneous