From his early career, Paul Muldoon has been recognized as one of the most distinguished poets in the English-speaking world. What has brought him to this early recognition? Muldoon`s poetry is successful particularly in its implicitness as well as allegorical suggestiveness, which not only creates difficulty but gives rise to many different interpretations. In reading his early poetry, I will put a special focus on elements of resistance toward the religious/political conflicts of Northern Ireland in his poetry. Paul Muldoon was born into a Catholic family of Northern Ireland and educated in Northern Ireland where unrelenting fiction between Catholics and Protestants has not yet been extinguished. He himself witnessed the Troubles in 1969 at the age of eighteen. He once confessed that he is not indifferent to the Northern Ireland problem. He never deals with it explicitly; nevertheless, we find his lowered anger scattered in his poetry. This essay will examine how Muldoon reacts to the Northern Ireland conflict in his early poetry.