Poet whose sensitive lyrics deal with human experience -love, death, creativity and suffering- in the chaotic 20th-century world.
After attending University College in Dublin, Kinsella served in the Irish civil service from 1946 to 1965. He was appointed writer in residence at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (1965-67), then professor of English at the university (1967).
His early volumes Poems (1956) and Another September (1958) established him as a poet of note. Such later volumes as Downstream (1962) often focus on war and the political and social disruption of modern Ireland. Kinsella´s translation of the ancient Gaelic saga The Cattle Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cuailnge) was published in 1969.
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