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Injury Claims Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland in the son of a cobbler-cum-small farmer. He left school at the age of thirteen, apparently destined to plough the 'stony-grey soil' rather than write about it, but 'I dabbled in verse,' he said, 'and it became my life.'
H is poems celebrate the scenery and land of his native Inniskeen. In 1936 his first book of verse, Ploughman and Other Poems, was published, and in 1938 he followed this up with The Green Fool , an autobiography. He spent the lean years of the war in Dublin, where his epic poem The Great Hunger was published in 1942. After the war he published the novel Tarry Flynn (1948) which is a about a small time farmer who dreams of a different life as a writer and a poet.
He also published Two further collections of verse: A Soul for Sale (1947) and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (1960). The bulk of his verse was included in his Collected Prose.
He died in 1967 and is buried in Inniskeen. | |
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