'Paddy Kavanagh, the unsung Irish poet'

Niamh Hamill - Instructor

Patrick Kavanagh was Ireland's first modern rural poet. Kavanagh came from Iniskeen, County Monaghan, and was the first poet to explore the very Irish themes of land, home, the relationship between the ordinary man and his God, and the nature of the rural Irishman. These themes had almost disappeared with the Gaelic poets, but Kavanagh reasserted their importance and paved the way for later rural poets such as Seamus Heaney.

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