← Dora Sigerson ShorterThe Sad Yearsby Dora Sigerson ShorterCollection of poems reflecting on loss, melancholy, and emotional resignationFind on Amazon↗About the authorDora Sigerson ShorterIrish poet whose verse expressed passionate Irish nationalism after the 1916 Rising. Her Sixteen Dead Men is an elegy for the executed leaders.More by Dora Sigerson ShorterPoems→Sixteen Dead MenElegiac poems commemorating victims of Irish Easter Rising and nationalist struggle→Collected Poems→