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Mar 18, 2024 · 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 ...
Sep 18, 2022 · Sun 18 Sep 2022 09.00 EDT. Patrick Kavanagh is one of Ireland ’s most revered poets – a genius from a rural backwater who made the parochial universal. Yet his fame never really reached other...
" On Raglan Road " is a well-known Irish song from a poem written by Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh named after Raglan Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin. [1] . In the poem, the speaker recalls, while walking on a "quiet street," a love affair that he had with a much younger woman.
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.
Dec 18, 2018 · Books. Patrick Kavanagh, a poet who never shunned hard truths, inspires a new generation. The Lea-Green Down features more than 60 new poems responding to Kavanagh’s work. Some of the poets...
Patrick Kavanagh died fifty years ago. His name has rarely been absent from comment and controversy since then. In his lifetime he could be scathing and colourful in speech: he wrote prose that pilloried the sacred cows of a city and an establishment, whoever or whatever they happened to be at that moment.
This site is dedicated to the work of the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, 1904-1967, and contains information about Kavanagh’s work in print. The site also makes…
