Kavanagh Country
Monaghan-born Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) is one of the major figures in modern Irish poetry. During his convalescence from a serious illness in the warm summer of 1955 he immortalised the grand Canal, just west of Baggot Street Bridge:
Commemorate me where there is water,
Canal water preferably, so stilly
greeny at the heart of summer...
Just a canal bank seat for the passer-by.
In Kavanagh Country, writer P.J Browne and photographer Dave Maher trace Kavanagh's journey in words and pictures from his formative rural years to his relocation and dislocation in Dublin, a man often at odds with himself and his surroundings, his peers. Along the way Patrick Kavanagh left a memorable landscape, popularised in his ballads, poetry and prose.
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