Creator
Patrick Kavanagh
Title
The Great Hunger
Coverage
Dublin
Publisher
Cuala Press
Date
1942
Subject
Inscribed by Kavanagh, Dublin, June 22, 1944: “For my dear Friend / Ronnie Lyon / With the very warmest regards.”
Description
Patrick Kavanagh was a self-taught poet raised on a small farm in County Monaghan. “He entered my head the way the potato digger enters the field at the start of his poem The Great Hunger,” wrote Seamus Heaney, “kicking the dead weight of the familiar into life.” The Irish Times named Kavanagh the second most popular Irish poet after Yeats, with ten of his poems, including his ‘Canal Bank” poetry and “On Raglan Road,” named among Ireland’s most popular poems.
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