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Irish life, nature. 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.
- Irish
- 1928–1967
- Poet
- Irish poet, novelist
Patrick Kavanagh (en gaélico Pádraig Caomhánach, 21 de octubre de 1904 — 30 de noviembre de 1967) fue un poeta y novelista irlandés. Considerado como uno de los poetas más importantes del siglo XX en su país, sus obras más conocidas son la novela Tarry Flynn y los poemarios Raglan Road y The Great Hunger ( La gran hambruna ).
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).
18 de mar. de 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
18 de sept. de 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...
Biography. 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.
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.