The Dead Irish Writers

John Millington Synge, James Stephens, Samuel Ferguson and Yeats Still remembered today as Irish literary greats George Bernard Shaw, Mangan, Oscar Wilde and Joyce To say who was best of them such a hard choice. O Casey, A E, Austin Clarke and Frank O Connor knew literary renown And William Allingham the pride of Ballyshannon Town The women Katherine Tynan, Winifred Letts, Etna Carbery and Elizabeth Shane Their literary genius with us does remain. John B Keane, Clifford Sigerson and Brian McMahon their fellow Kerryman And the Cork poets Edward Walsh and J J Callanan And the Tipperary writer Charles Kickham became known far and wide From his beloved County and his home countryside. The Gaelic writers of Sliabh Luachra O Rathaille, O Suilleabhain and Patrick Dinneen Their contribution to Irish literature in books to be seen McDonagh, Pearse, Plunkett and the Cork poet Denny Lane And poor Francis Ledwidge the great Poet of Slane. Gogarty, Percy French, Thomas Davis, Beckett and Seamus O Sullivan and Tom Moore the poet In literary Ireland all worthy of note The dead writers of Ireland one thing in common do share They made Ireland famous in the big World out there.