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Patrick Kavanagh. Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". [1] He is known for his accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace.
1904–1967. Irish poet and writer Patrick Kavanagh was born in a rural area of County Monaghan, a northern county in the Irish province of Ulster. The son of a shoemaker who owned a small farm, he left school at about the age of 12 and thereafter largely taught himself about literature. His poetry collections include The Great Hunger: A Poem ...
Patrick Kavanagh (born Oct. 21, 1904, near Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ire.—died Nov. 30, 1967, Dublin) was a poet whose long poem The Great Hunger put him in the front rank of modern Irish poets. Kavanagh was self-educated and worked for a while on a farm in his home county, which provided the setting for a novel, Tarry Flynn (1948), which ...
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Patrick Kavanagh is considered one of the foremost Irish poets of the 20th century. His work often centered on rural life, particularly in his native County Monaghan, Ireland. His poetry celebrated the ordinary, finding beauty and meaning in the everyday lives of farmers and rural folk. Kavanagh's writing is characterized by its directness ...
Life. Patrick Kavanagh was born on 21 October 1904, in Mucker townland, Inniskeen parish, Co. Monaghan, the son of James Kavanagh, a small farmer with sixteen acres who was also a cobbler, and Bridget Quinn. He attended Kednaminsha National School from 1909 to 1916 and worked on the family farm after leaving school.
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) is one of Ireland’s best-loved poets: when the Irish Times compiled a list of favourite Irish poems in 2000, ten of Kavanagh’s were in the top fifty, with only Yeats’s name appearing more frequently. Kavanagh rose to such literary pre-eminence from the humblest of backgrounds.
Kavanagh was an unswerving critic of the Irish Revival. ‘It is usually taken for granted’, he wrote in an article, ‘that there was a great literary renaissance in Ireland within the last fifty years. How little of all that writing was of the slightest merit!’. He came to Dublin in 1939 and lived there from then on, despite being a ...
