Patrick Kavanagh
Kavanagh was primarily a poet but his novel Tarry Flynn is a brilliant comic autobiography of smallholding life in Monaghan, capturing the meanness and beauty of Irish rural life with extraordinary vividness.
Works
- Tarry FlynnNovel of rural Irish country life and farming culture in Monaghan
- The Green FoolAutobiographical novel of rural Irish childhood and poetic awakening
- Ploughman and Other PoemsPoetry collection celebrating the rural landscape and the ploughman
- The Great HungerLong poem depicting the grinding poverty and monotony of Irish peasant life
- Come Dance with Kitty StoblingPoetry collection of lyric verses exploring love and rural experience
- Collected PoemsComplete poems spanning his entire poetic career from early to late work