Patrick Kavanagh 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". He is known for his accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace.
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George William Russell, Kavanagh's literary advisor and mentor
Patrick Kavanagh by Patrick Swift, lithograph, 1956, NPG, London
Kavanagh's grave, Inniskeen
The poet "pondering the Stony Grey Soil of Monaghan at his native Inniskeen" in 1963
Patrick Kavanagh statue along the Grand Canal in Dublin
A wax statue of Kavanagh at the National Wax Museum, DublinWriters born in the 1900s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1904 to 1967 · aged 63
Written about in
19 languages
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