The Shortlist
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- A Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh
- A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford by Derek Mahon
- Dublin by Louis MacNeice
- Easter 1916 by W. B. Yeats
- Fill Arís by Seán Ó Ríordáin
- Filleadh ar an gCathair by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
- Making Love Outside Áras an Uachtaráin by Paul Durcan
- Quarantine by Eavan Boland
- The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks by Paula Meehan
- ‘When all the others were away at Mass’ by Seamus Heaney