THE PATRICK KAVANAGH EXHIBITION
The Patrick Kavanagh Exhibition was showcased in the Patrick Kavanagh Centre, Inniskeen, Monaghan and the Druied Theatre, Galway City.
Patrick Kavanagh, a poet of the land and its people, was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan, in October 21st 1904 and passed away on November 30th 1967.
As I crossed the wooden bridge I wondered as I looked into the drain if ever a summer’s evening should find me shovelling up eels again …
Tarry Flynn
A Christmas Childhood
My Father PLAYED the Melodeon outside at our gate. There was stars in the morning east, and they danced to his music …
Spraying the Potatoes
The barrels of blue potato-spray stood on a headland of July …
Enniskeen Road
The bicycles go bye in twos and trees, there is a dance in Billy Brennan’s Barn tonight.
Worship
If ever you go to Dublin Town
If ever you go to Dublin Town in a hundred years or so enquire for me in Baggott Street and what I was like to know …
The Goat of Slive Donnard
I saw an old goat on the slope of Slive Donnard
Stoney Grey Soil
Ó Stoney Grey soil of Monaghan the laugh from my love you thrived …
The One
Green, blue, yellow and red, God is down in the swamps and Marshes …
The final resting Place