1. Seamus Heaney
2. William Butler Yeats
3. Patrick Kavanagh
4. Paul Durcan
5. Eavan Boland
6. Brendan Kennelly
7. Louis MacNeice
8. Thomas Kinsella
9. Paula Meehan
10. Derek Mahon
Top 10 Poets'
1. Seamus Heaney
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