Here is a list of Irish poetry and prose collections that have beautiful love poems which would be suitable for a wedding.

Treasury of Irish Love Poems Proverbs & Triads 1998 Hippocrene Books

Irish Love Poems Irish American Book Company 1998

Irish Love Poems: Danta Gra Hippocrene Books 1996

The following collections of Irish poetry are currently out of print but can be found in libraries and in the out-of-print department of the Amazon web site. Kenny’s Book Store in Galway often carries these titles and you can also query their out-of-print department.

The Long Embrace Twentieth Century Irish Love Poems 1987, Blackstaff Press Ltd.

Remembered Kisses An illustrated anthology of Irish love poetry 1997, CLB Publishing

The Darling of My Heart Two Thousand Years of Irish Love Writing 1994, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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The following is a list of Irish Love poems. Copyright infringement does not allow us to reprint them here but many of these poems can be found in the above collections.

1) I tell her she is lovely - Monk Gibbon 2) Girl of the Red Mouth - Martin MacDermott 3) The Wooing Etain - translated by John Montague - from the Irish 4) When You are Old - William Butler Yeats 5) We Get Along - Sara Berkeley 6) Labasheedy - Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill 7) Be Still As You Are Beautiful - Patrick MacDonogh 8) The Daisies - James Stephens 9) Song - Thomas Parnell 10) Dear Black Head - translated by Sir Samuel Ferguson - from the Irish 11) With Flowers - Francis Ledwidge 12) While You Are Talking - Michael O’Siadhail 13) Do You Remember That Night - translated by Eugene O’Curry - from the Irish 14) Ready For Flight - Eavan Boland 15) Noon at St. Michael’s - Derek Mahon 16) Maire My Girl - John Keegan Casey 17) The Library - Aidan Carl Mathews 18) On Sweet Killen Hill - translated by Tom MacIntyre - from the Irish 19) The Planters Daughter - Austin Clarke 20) Love on the Mountain - Thomas Boyd 21) To An Isle in the Water - William Butler Yeats 22) L’Amitie - Monk Gibbon 23) I Suddenly - George Buchanan 24) Bread - Brendan Kennelly 25) We Are Living - Brendan Kennelly 26) Nessa - Paul Durcan 27) The Smell of Cake - Sean Dunne 28) I’d Swear for Her - James Doherty 29) A White Rose - John Boyle O’Reilly 30) Affinity - George Russell