Patrick Kavanagh

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Patrick Kavanagh was a 20th-century Irish poet whose plainspoken, rural-themed verse profoundly shaped modern Irish poetry and influenced later writers such as Seamus Heaney.

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Patrick Kavanagh canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Irish poet
human
poet
burialPlace Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland
centuryOfActivity 20th century
commemoratedBy Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
countryOfBirth Ireland
countryOfCitizenship Ireland
countryOfDeath Ireland
dateOfBirth 1904-10-21
dateOfDeath 1967-11-30
education largely self-educated
ethnicGroup Irish
familyName Kavanagh
genre novel
poetry
givenName Patrick
hasInfluenceOn Irish literary identity
hasPoem Canal Bank Walk
Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin
influenced Seamus Heaney
modern Irish poets
knownFor influencing later Irish poets
transforming rural experience into modern poetry
languageOfExpression English
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
movement modern Irish poetry
name Patrick Kavanagh self-link
nationality Irish
notableWork A Soul for Sale
On Raglan Road
Tarry Flynn
An Gorta Mór
surface form: The Great Hunger
occupation journalist
novelist
poet
parentalBackground small farmer family
placeOfBirth Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland
placeOfDeath Dublin
surface form: Dublin, Ireland
primaryTheme peasant experience
rural Irish life
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Dublin
surface form: Dublin, Ireland

Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland
style plainspoken verse
realist poetry
subjectOf Patrick Kavanagh Centre in Inniskeen
workLocation Dublin literary circles

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Seamus Heaney influencedBy Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh name Patrick Kavanagh self-link