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THE POETRY of Patrick Kavanagh will be read, celebrated, and discussed at the fifth Kavanagh Days event, to be held in Galway next week.

MARTIN DYAR, the award winning poet, playwright, actor, singer, and songwriter, launches his debut poetry collection in Galway this weekend.

THE LEGACY of the great Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh will be celebrated through poetry, talks, readings, films, stories, and music during next weekend’s Galway Kavanagh Day.

Plunged into daylight,

MARTIN DYAR, the Co Mayo poet and actor, will be among the readers at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday October 28 at 6.30pm.

REHEARSALS ARE currently well advanced for a new production of Conal Morrison’s award-winning adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s classic novel, Tarry Flynn, which will be staged at the Town Hall Theatre from Tuesday August 3 to Sunday 8.

THE TOWN Hall Theatre will present the stage adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s novel Tarry Flynn and auditions for the cast take place next week.

He was the classic grumpy old man. He was loud, he was vulgar and his social habits left a lot to be desired.

PATRICK MORAN grew up in Templetuohy, Co Tipperary, where he still lives. In poem after poem in his new collection Green (Salmon Poetry) he brings absolutely to life the vanished world of small town and rural Ireland.

When the poet Patrick Kavanagh first came to Dublin in 1939 it was with great expectations. What better city could there be for a poet than one so rich in famous writers. AE (George Russell), always kind and encouraging towards new poetic talent, took him under his wing, and, as Kavanagh appeared to him to be the peasant-poet of Irish tradition, he was initially accepted by the establishment. That idyll did not last, and, for one reason or another, he spent most of his life as a loner.