Similar examples may be found in Irish poet William Butler Yeats ' poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own ageing self.

Irish poet Thomas Kinsella's 1972 poem Butcher's Dozen is a satirical and angry response to the Widgery Tribunal and the events of Bloody Sunday.

Irish poet Seamus Heaney's Casualty ( published in Field Work, 1981 ) criticizes Britain for the death of his friend.

* The 20th-century Irish poet Louis MacNeice references Catullus in his poem " Epitaph for Liberal Poets ," where he mentions Catullus as amongst the first liberal poets-" Catullus / went down young ," mentioning him in the context of the death of the individual and recognising his and the universal plight.

* 1860 – Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish novelist and poet ( d. 1939 )

* 1791 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet ( d. 1823 )

* 1929 – John Montague, Irish poet

One of the objectors was the property-owner, Dr Gogarty, the father of the Irish poet, Oliver St. John Gogarty.

The house and lands of the poet Thomas Tickell were sold in 1790 to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first Botanic Gardens.

In 1803, Irish poet Thomas Moore arrived in Bermuda, having been appointed registrar to the Admiralty there.

* 1939 – Michael Longley, Irish poet

He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats, and the brother of the Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler Yeats.

* 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer ( b. 1904 )

* 1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet ( d. 1852 )

* 1810 – Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet ( d. 1886 )

* 1957 – Seán Mac Falls, Irish poet

* 1947 – Trevor Joyce, Irish poet

* Oscar ( opera ), an opera about Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet by composer Theodore Morrison to be presented by The Santa Fe Opera in 2013.

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), Irish writer and poet

CMG between 1911 and shortly before his execution for treason, when he was stripped of his British honours — was a humanitarian campaigner and an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist.

* 1907 – Louis MacNeice, Irish poet ( d. 1963 )

Terence Alan Patrick Seán " Spike " Milligan KBE ( 16 April 191827 February 2002 ) was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor of English and Irish parentage.

William Butler Yeats ( ; 13 June 186528 January 1939 ) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.

* March 20 – Brendan Behan, Irish poet and writer ( b. 1923 )

One of the earliest group automorphisms ( automorphism of a group, not simply a group of automorphisms of points ) was given by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1856, in his Icosian Calculus, where he discovered an order two automorphism, writing:

* 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.

* 1805 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician ( d. 1865 )

William Bedell had undertaken an Irish translation of the Book of Common Prayer in 1606.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

William Forbes Skene and Alan Orr Anderson proposed that it should be read as " in conformity with the customs of the Gaels ", relating it to the claims in the king lists that Giric liberated the church from secular oppression and adopted Irish customs.

( Davy's invention had been preceded by that of William Reid Clanny, an Irish doctor at Bishopwearmouth, who had also read a paper to the Royal Society in May 1813.

Constitutional nationalism enjoyed its greatest success in the 1880s and 1890s when the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stewart Parnell succeeded in having two Home Rule bills introduced by the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone, though both failed.

For much of the 1940s, one of the most prolific and successful authors of this often downbeat brand of suspense tale was Cornell Woolrich ( sometimes under the pseudonym George Hopley or William Irish ).

In its heyday, many celebrities belonged to the Golden Dawn, such as actress Florence Farr, Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, Irish writer William Butler Yeats, Welsh author Arthur Machen, English author Evelyn Underhill, and English author Aleister Crowley.

Widely considered a national hero, William Brown is the most famous Irish citizen in Argentina.

Governor William Sayle prepared for the uprising with three edicts: the first was that a nightly watch be raised throughout the colony ; second, that slaves and the Irish be disarmed of militia weapons ; and third, that any gathering of two or more Irish or slaves be dispersed by whipping.

* Ronan, Gerard The Irish Zorro: the Extraordinary Adventures of William Lamport ( 1615 – 1659 )

* 1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist and engineer ( d. 1907 )

* 1865 – William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1937 )

* 1955 – William Wall, Irish writer

* 1913 – William Conway, Northern Irish cardinal ( d. 1977 )

Nineteenth-century Irish amateur scholar William Betham speculated that worship of Oannes is the origin of the cult of the Roman god Janus.

Later 19th century historians such as William Forbes Skene brought new standards of accuracy to early Scottish history, while Celticists such as Whitley Stokes and Kuno Meyer cast a critical eye over Welsh and Irish sources.

She is said to have been the daughter of a Welsh steel worker of Irish descent, William O ' Callaghan, who had been superintendent on the Indian State railways.

* 1872 – William Fay, Irish actor and theatre producer ( d. 1947 )