Irish Examiner view: Kennelly and Mhac An tSaoi touched our hearts

Tributes to poets whose legacies will live on

Brendan Kennelly, one the country’s most popular poets and a former professor of English at Trinity College Dublin.

The heartfelt tributes paid to Máire Mhac An tSaoi and Brendan Kennelly are testament to how their work touched the lives of so many people, both in the literary world and outside of it. 

Their writing was the backdrop to different stages of life for so many of us, school days, college, or stolen moments of solitude when their words reached deep into our hearts and minds.