Patrick Kavanagh
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His 1953 poem "If Ever You Go To Dublin Town" was quoted, in part, by Morrissey Central (March 2024).
It was mentioned prior to this in Autobiography:
"Nellie is my father’s sister, and in 1973 she innocently asks me: ‘Have you considered being a butcher when you leave school?’ Nellie is thoughtful – and very kind, but her question is met with a silent howl. Why would I want to butcher anything? Her home town of Dublin offers Patrick Kavanagh, who died in 1967 at 62:
On Pembroke Road look out for my ghost
Disheveled with shoes untied,
Playing through the railings with little children
Whose children have long since died
and, wrongly, unnecessarily, this child weeps, full of the foolish embarrassment that his father has clearly marked out."
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Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". He is known for his accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace.
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