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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. [2] Life and work. Early life.
His poetry collections include The Great Hunger: A Poem (1971), Come Dance With Kitty Stobling, and Other Poems (1960), A Soul for Sale: Poems (1947), and Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), and his most celebrated novel is Tarry Flynn (1948).
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.
Sep 18, 2022 · 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 shores.
Dec 18, 2018 · 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 who...
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.
Patrick Kavanagh, one of Ireland’s greatest poets, was born in Inniskeen in 1904. He was the fourth of nine children born to small farmers.
