Join The Irish Poets Society on Tuesday, November 28th for An Evening of Irish Poetry of War. Ireland has a long tradition of poet soldiers and war poetry. We will honor the triumphs and sorrows of our fighting Irish brethren with recitations, recordings and musical adaptations of some very touching poems of war. The poems for the evening will include many of the following. Hope to see you there!
The Wind That Shakes the Barley – Robert Dwyer Joyce
Belfast Confetti – Ciaran Carson
Progress – Alan Gillis
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death – William Butler Yeats
Flower of Youth – Catherine Tynan
Requiem for the Croppies – Seamus Heaney
Sixteen Dead Men – William Butler Yeats
Truce – Paul Muldoon
The Mother – Padraig Pearse
The Recruiting Sergeant – Anonymous
September 1913 – William Butler Yeats
Easter 1916 – William Butler Yeats
To C. M. On Her Prison Birthday – Eva Gore-Booth
Comrades – Eva Gore-Booth
[Lament for] Thomas McDonagh – Francis Ledwidge
Connolly – Liam MacGabhann
Will It Be So Again – C. Day Lewis
The Foggy Dew (Song Lyrics) – Canon Charles O’Neill (song: The Chieftains feat. Sinead O’Connor)
Grace (Song Lyrics) – Sean and Frank O’Meara (song: Rod Stewart)
