Tarry Flynn

Name: Tarry Flynn
Author: Patrick Kavanagh

by Patrick Kavanagh

Novel of rural Irish country life and farming culture in Monaghan

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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.

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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