Popularity ranking · Ireland

The 51 most popular Poets in Ireland

This curated ranking covers the 51 largest poets in Ireland, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Lucan, Sylvia Plath and Emily Brontë lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 804k people. Across all 51 entries the average audience size is 19k, and the largest, Lucan, reaches around 751k people in Ireland. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Ireland who actively engage with each poet, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Ireland and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 51, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Ireland who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Ireland. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Ireland, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Ireland. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 John Milton 2.1k 31.4 46.5% Poet
27 Wole Soyinka 2.1k 38.5 56.5% Poet
28 Augustine of Hippo 1.4k 34.5 61.8% Poet
29 Clarissa Pinkola Estés 1.3k 48.1 82.1% Poet
30 Friedrich Schiller 1k 43.1 60.0% Poet
31 Husayn ibn Ali 841 28.3 15.8% Poet
32 Hafez 748 41.3 57.4% Poet
33 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar 742 35.4 11.5% Poet
34 Audrey Niffenegger 459 49.3 85.3% Poet
35 Muhammad al-Bukhari 454 36.5 37.9% Poet
36 Harivansh Rai Bachchan 443 42.7 42.5% Poet
37 Faiz Ahmad Faiz 311 29.9 12.3% Poet
38 Satguru 260 36.0 30.5% Poet
39 Parveen Shakir 260 36.3 22.9% Poet
40 Tulsidas 240 33.3 12.6% Poet
41 Abdul-Qadir Gilani 234 31.0 7.2% Poet
42 Muhammad Taqi Usmani 219 44.3 10.9% Poet
43 Haji Bektash Veli 182 47.3 41.3% Poet
44 Ogyen Trinley Dorje 175 46.8 57.1% Poet
45 Kazi Nazrul Islam 156 21.7 54.6% Poet
46 Cathy Park Hong 151 42.7 57.4% Poet
47 Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi 141 28.5 12.2% Poet
48 Irom Chanu Sharmila 125 31.0 6.4% Poet
49 Nizami Ganjavi 111 32.7 24.0% Poet
50 Muhammad Owais Raza Qadri 82 28.5 7.3% Poet

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular poets compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Ireland and ranks each poet by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest poet in Ireland?

Lucan currently leads with an estimated audience of 751k people in Ireland.

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