En accès libre à l'adresse suivante : http://etudesirlandaises.revues.org/2602National audienceThis paper offers a critical reading of two collections of poetry written after 1998. Its aim is to discuss how Breaking News and The State of the Prisons respond to the political changes inaugurated by the Good Friday Agreement, and their own need for literary renewal. Although the thematic concerns of these two collections still hard back to the Troubles era, their investigation of the role of war in both history and the writing of poetry lays the basis of a post-Troubles literature.Cet article se propose d'examiner deux exemples de la production poétique nord-irlandaise d'après 1998, et de déterminer en quoi leur écriture interroge les changeme...