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Patrick Kavanagh
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).
He published two novels: The Green Fool (London, Michael Joseph, 1938); Tarry Flynn (London, The Pilot Press, 1948). By Night Unstarred (Newbridge, The Goldsmith Press, 1978) is a conflation of two unpublished novels edited by his brother Peter Kavanagh.
Other prose includes Self Portrait (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1963, the text of a TV documentary, RTÉ, 1962); Collected Pruse (McGibbon & Kee, 1967); Lapped Furrows (correspondence between Patrick & Peter Kavanagh, The Peter Kavanagh Hand Press, 1969); November Haggard: Uncollected Prose and Verse of Patrick Kavanagh (The Peter Kavanagh Hand Press, 1971); and Kavanagh’s Weekly, a facsimile of the paper published by Patrick and Peter Kavanagh in 1952 (The Goldsmith Press, 1981).
Patrick Kavanagh died in 1967.
