1. Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable
“…where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939). (Picture: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)2. W.B. Yeats, He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
“I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”
3. Austin Clarke, The Planter’s Daughter
“And O she was the Sunday. In every week”
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900). (Picture: W. &/D. Downey/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)4. Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”
5. Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal
“Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls
Dancing over and over with her shadow
Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls
And all of London littered with remembered kisses”
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) monument6. Patrick Kavanagh, Memory of my Father
“Every old man I see
In October-coloured weather
Seems to say to me
I was once your father"
7. Brian Friel, Philadelphia, Here I Come!
“It’s all over…And it’s all about to begin”
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)8. Séamus Heaney, Scaffolding
“So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be
Old bridges breaking between you and me
Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall
Confident that we have built our wall”
