biography
| name: |
Kavanagh, Patrick (Joseph)
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pronunciation:
[kavana]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–67)
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| biography:
| Poet and writer, born near Inniskeen, Co Monaghan, NE Ireland. He was self-educated, and worked as a peasant farmer before moving to Dublin (1939) to pursue a career as a writer and journalist. He is best known for The Great Hunger (1942), a long, angry and passionate poem of farm life, and Tarry Flynn (1948), an autobiographical novel, in which he depicts sensitively and convincingly the countryside where he was brought up. |
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