Denis Devlin (15 April 1908 – 21 August 1959) was, along with Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy and Brian Coffey, one of the generation of Irish modernist poets to emerge at the end of the 1920s.
As part of his studies, he attended a degree course in modern languages at University College Dublin (UCD), where he met and befriended Brian Coffey.
He graduated with from UCD his BA in 1930 and spent that summer on the Blasket Islands to improve his spoken Irish.
Between 1930 and 1933, he studied literature at Munich University and the Sorbonne in Paris, meeting, amongst others, Beckett and Thomas MacGreevy.
During this time he met the French poet Saint-John Perse, and the Americans Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren.