Let v be a henselian valuation of arbitrary rank of a field K with valuation ring Rv having maximal ideal Mv. Using the canonical homomorphism from Rv onto Rv /Mv, one can lift any monic irreducible polynomial with coefficients in Rv/Mv to yield monic irreducible polynomials over Rv . Popescu and Zaharescu extended this approach and introduced the notion of lifting with respect to a residually transcendental prolongation w of v to a simple transcendental extension K(x) of K. As it is well known, the residue field of such a prolongation w is L(Y ), where L is the residue field of the unique prolongation of v to a finite simple extension L of K and Y is transcendental over L (see [V. Alexandru, N. Popescu and A. Zaharescu, A theorem of characterization of residual transcendental extension of a valuation, J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 28 (1988) 579-592]). It is known that a lifting of an irreducible polynomial belonging to L[Y ] with respect to w, is irreducible over K. In this paper, we give some sufficient conditions to ensure that a given polynomial in K[x] satisfying these conditions which is a lifting of a power of some irreducible polynomial belonging to L[Y ] with respect to w, is irreducible over K. Our results extend Eisenstein-Dumas and generalized Schönemann irreducibility criteria.