In Ireland

In Ireland they do laud their literary greats Such as Joyce and Beckett and Heaney and Yeats But their National Bard James Clarence Mangan seldom mentioned at all And few do speak of Patrick MacGill of Donegal Patrick Cavanagh, James Stephens, Etna Carbery and Austin Clarke In Irish Literature they did leave their mark And of the praises of the great Oscar Wilde Irish literary critics do not sing His works nowadays in Ireland are not the in thing He is better known elsewhere than in Ireland today Of Literature in Ireland what does this say The works of O Casey and Synge today in Ireland not well known Though they were true Irish and of Ireland's own The literary critics of Ireland have their chosen few You may say to that do tell us what is new.