Two poems by Irish writers on the Hungarian Revolution were published in the nineteenth century, with another touching on the topic. Each illustrate the mutable character of literary nationalism in Ireland in its transnational connection to Hungary, moving between identification and distancing. Samuel Ferguson published a poem on the Hungarian Revolution immediately following its defeat in 1849. John Francis O’Donnell alluded to Hungary in a political nationalist poem of the 1860s. W. B. Yeats published a poem based on a report of one man’s traumatic experience during the Hungarian Revolution that appeared in French and English newspapers in the 1880s. This chapter discusses the treatment of Hungary in all three poems. I examine the ways that Ferguson adapts the style he uses for poems on Irish mythology to the Hungarian Revolution and his ambivalent attitude to Irish political nationalism that his poem conveys through Hungary. O’Donnell connects the Hungarian Revolution to Fenian politics in the 1860s. Yeats also brings the Hungarian Revolution into dialogue with Irish nationalist politics. I look at the ways in which Yeats’s Hungarian poem is a forerunner to his most nationalist play, co-written with Lady Gregory, Kathleen ni Houlihan. The poem is also important in disclosing tensions between the aesthetic and the political that arise in many of Yeats’s other poems and plays.