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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Sep 18, 2022 · Kavanagh was a poet of ordinary people, said Eve Patten, a professor of English at Trinity College Dublin. “Yeats and Heaney, and Joyce, too, are all international writers. Kavanagh always seems ...
Patrick Kavanagh, one of Ireland’s greatest poets, was born in Inniskeen in 1904 and lived his first 35 years on a small farm here. He was the fourth of nine children born to small farmers and in this house filled with the noise and activity of shoemaking, pig-rearing and young children, Patrick Kavanagh began to write.
