Monday the 12th
"On Raglan Road of an autumn day I saw her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue
I saw the danger and I passed along the enchanted way
And I said let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day"
Raglan Road
by Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh Books
Selected Poems, A Poet's Country: Selected Prose, No Earthly Estate - God and Patrick Kavanagh, Tarry Flynn, The Green Fool, Collected poems
Patrick Kavanagh Links
Patrick Kavanagh - TCD
Site http://www.tcd.ie/English/patrickkavanagh/
This site is dedicated to the work of the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, 1904-1967, and contains information about Kavanagh's work in print. The site also makes his uncollected poetry available to readers and students. It is maintained by the Trustees of the estate of his widow Katherine Kavanagh
The Patrick Kavanagh Web site
Site http://www.patrickkavanaghcountry.com
The Patrick Kavanagh Web site is dedicated to the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. This site gives information on the poet, his birth place Inniskeen, the area today, the Patrick Kavanagh Centre, and an on-line book shop where you can buy Kavanagh's poetry and prose.
Dublin Tourism - Patrick Kavanagh
Site http://www.dublintourist.com/literary_dublin/patrick_kavanagh.shtml
Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, on 21 October, 1904. His father was a cobbler and farmer and grew up in the shadow of the "hungry hills" of Ulster. Kavanagh left school intending to follow in his father's footsteps but turned his back on farming. "I dabbled in verse, and it became my life." Much of his poetry is autobiographical; the earlier poems written about the life of rural Ireland which he left at thirty, when he walked from Monaghan to Dublin (a considerable distance). In 1936 his first volume of poems, "Ploughman and Other Poems", was published. His later verse took inspiration from the city life of Dublin, where he befriended John Beteman, another famous poet. His poetry never made him a lot of money, but Kavanagh did not care. "I am a very lazy man." He died in 1967 and was buried in Inniskeen. In Dublin, his beloved second home, he was immortalized according to his wishes: "O commemorate me with no hero-courageous/ Tomb -- just a canal-bank seat for the passer-by."
Patrick Kavanagh - Irish Poet
Site http://www.irishlinks.co.uk/pkavanagh.htm
Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland in 1904, the son of a Patrick Kavanaghcobbler-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.' His 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.
Patrick Kavanagh - Norton Poets Online
Site http://www.wwnorton.com/trade/external/nortonpoets/kavanaghp.htm
Patrick Kavanagh was born in the village of Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in 1905. His first book, Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), attracted little attention, but convinced of his poetic mission, he went to Dublin in 1939. In 1942, he published his best-known poem, The Great Hunger, which presents the Irish farmer's grinding poverty and sexual inhibition. The book achieved some notoriety, and indeed got Kavanagh in trouble with the censors. His later poems are more personal, ranging from geniality to sharp satire. Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (1960) was a choice of the Poetry Book Society, and in his later years, he came to be regarded by many critics as the most important Irish poet since Yeats.
Patrick Kavanagh - USNA
Site http://www.usna.edu/EnglishDept/ilv/kavanagh.htm
Patrick (Joseph Gregory) Kavanagh was born and raised in Inniskeen Parish, in northern Ireland, specifically County Monaghan. The first son of ten children, he followed in his father's footsteps and learned the trades of both a cobbler and a farmer. Despite his "intellectual deprivation" (May, 200) as a child with his formal education ending by age twelve, he was able to pursue his own special interest in literature and writing poetry.
Patrick Kavanagh - Irish Writers Online
Site http://www.irishwriters-online.com/patrickkavanagh.html
Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan in 1904. His poetry volumes are Ploughman & Other Poems (London, MacMillan Contemporary Poets Series, 1936); The Great Hunger (Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1942, Limited Edition); A Soul for Sale (MacMillan, 1947); Recent Poems (New York, The Peter Kavanagh Hand Press, 1958); Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (London, Longmans, 1960); Collected Poems (London, McGibbon & Kee, 1964; New York, The Deven Adair Company, 1964); and Complete Poems of Patrick Kavanagh (The Peter Kavanagh Hand Press, 1972).
Patrick Kavanagh - Penguin
Site http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000017165,00.html
Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in 1904. His verse collections included Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), A Soul for Sale and Other Poems (1947) and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (1960). He also wrote the novel Tarry Flynn (1948) and his autobiography The Green Fool (1938). He died in 1967.
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925