Austin Clarke (poet)

Austin Clarke (Irish: Aibhistín Ó Cléirigh; 9 May 1896 – 19 March 1974), born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. Clarke's main contribution to Irish poetry was the rigour with which he used technical means borrowed from classical Irish language poetry when writing in English.

Quotes

• Men that had seen her
  Drank deep and were silent,
  The women were speaking
  Wherever she went,
  As a bell that is rung
  Or a wonder told shyly,
  And O she was the Sunday
  In every week.
  • "The Planter’s Daughter", st. 2, in the Dublin Magazine, vol. 3, no. 5 (July–September 1928), p. 2