6.4K views · 137 reactions | Patrick Kavanagh 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". Born: 21 October 1904 - Died: 30 November 1967. | Forgotten Ireland | Facebook

Episode 32 of The Healy's Kitchen featuring the song / poem 'Raglan Road' or 'On Raglan Road'. The poem was put to music when the poet Patrick Kavanagh met Luke Kelly of the well-known Irish band The Dubliners in a pub in Dublin called The Bailey. It was set to the music of the traditional song "The Dawning of the Day" (Fáinne Geal an Lae). | The Healys

One of Ireland’s most revered poets, Patrick Kavanagh, was born in rural County Monaghan in 1904. His poetry celebrated beauty in the ordinary in everyday life. Seamus Heaney once said that Kavanagh was the poet who inspired him to write about the ordinary rural landscapes that he knew so well growing up. He described it as having permission to write about "the nettles behind the hen house." One of Kavanagh's best-known poems, Raglan Road, is close to the heart of many Irish people because it wa

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