View Poll Results: Who is the Best Irish Poet of the 20th century?

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  • Yeats

    6 42.86%
  • Boland

    0 0%
  • Kinsella

    0 0%
  • Heaney

    0 0%
  • Kavanagh

    1 7.14%
  • Clarke

    1 7.14%
  • Beckett

    0 0%
  • A.N. Other (please name)

    1 7.14%
  • Poetry is Gay

    5 35.71%
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Thread: Best Irish Poet of the 20th Century

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    Default Best Irish Poet of the 20th Century

    Anonymouse raises the intellectual bar in this online den of half-wits and dregs.

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    It has to be Yeats.

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    sorry mousey but i just cannot handle that stuff

    iambic pentameter me arse.

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    to the limerick lads

    did any of ye have jackie noonan for english in sextons street ?

    they'll understand.......



    ps I won a poetry writing contest when i was a kid (bit like a jewish kid finding out he was shit-hot as a nazi !!)

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    Default Best Irish poet in Nepal

    Quote Originally Posted by anonymouse View Post
    Anonymouse raises the intellectual bar in this online den of half-wits and dregs.

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    Whoever said learning poetry was a pain in the hole must have had Cathal O Searcaigh as a teacher

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    Quote Originally Posted by kieree View Post
    Whoever said learning poetry was a pain in the hole must have had Cathal O Searcaigh as a teacher

    Gardai contact Nepalese over leading poet's sex with boys - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie
    Cathal not averse to a bit of man on boy couplet

    By the way- THIS is poetry

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    has to be paddy k




    nbt

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    I hereby say
    That poetry is gay
    As voted for by
    The lads on E-I


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    Ah come on mouse, don't be so hasty, the poll is still open, anything could happen yet...........
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    I'd do better myself.. remember u would have to stand up in class & replay line for line poems u were revising all night before 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' etc....? Looking back What a load of bollicks

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    Come on, don't tell me you've never been struck by the simple personal tragedy of Heaney's "Mid-Term Break", or the lustful admiration in Clarke's "The Planter's Daughter", or the exasperated nerdery behind Kavanagh's "Iniskeen Road", or the tumultuous political commentary of Yeat's "September 1913"?

    No?

    No?


    AAAAAANNNNNYYYYBOOOODDDYYYYY?????

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