If the top results after typing "Irish poets" into a particular search engine are to be believed, Ireland has produced only one or two women poets over the past centuries. That is, to use the parlance of the day, absolutely #fakenews. Ireland's woman poets have as much to say about everything from domestic troubles to The Troubles as its men poets, and their work is melodic, challenging, thoughtful, and thought-provoking. What follows is just a starting place for diving into the breadth and width of styles, topics, and voices of Irish women poets. We hope these 10 poets and their poems will leave you hungry for much more.

Siobhán Campbell is a poet and critic. To date she has published six poetry collections, including 2017 collection, Heat Signature.

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe describes herself as “a poet, pacifist, and fabulist.” Her first collection, published in 2021, is Auguries of a Minor God.

Natalya O’Flaherty is a spoken word artist based in Dublin. She has performed on Ireland’s The Late Late Show, among other venues.

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhugh is an Irish-language poet. She has written four books of poetry, including the bilingual collection, The Coast Road, which features English translations by 13 poets.

Jane Clarke grew up on a farm in County Roscommon and now lives with her wife in Glenmalure. Her most recent poetry collection, All the Way Home, was an illustrated sequence of poems in collaboration with Mary Evans Picture Library, London.

Dublin poet Anne Tannam has published three collections of poetry, including 2022's Twenty-Six Letters of a New Alphabet.

Fióna Bolger lives between Ireland and India, and she is interested in poems that “fall between categories, challenge the existence of formal, linguistic, cultural or geographic boundaries, borders."

Born in Dublin, the late Eavan Boland (d. April 2020) was one of the leading voices in Irish literature during her long career. Starting with her first poetry collection, 23 Poems, in 1962, Boland published 25 books of poetry, among many other works. 

Moya Cannon was born in County Donegal, and now lives in Dublin. Her Collected Poems was published in February 2021.

Annemarie Ní Churreáin is from North West Donegal. BLOODROOT is her debut collection.