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"My life has in many ways been a tragedy and a failure," wrote Patrick Kavanagh toward his death. Born in Innishkeen, County Monaghan, Kavanagh ended his formal education after grammar school. He lived on a farm in his native parish until moving to Dublin in 1939, which he later described as one of mehr anzeigen the great mistakes of his life. There he supported himself primarily through journalism until awarded a sinecure of #400 a year for extramural lectures at University College, Dublin. After an illness in the mid-1950s, he grew resigned to obscurity and mellowed in his long literary war with both Irish repression and the Irish literary establishment. Besides his journalism, he also wrote novels of an autobiographical type. Sprung from Roman Catholic peasant stock, Kavanagh saw himself as voicing his own heritage against more anglicized (and more famous) writers. His first volume, Ploughman and Other Poems, established the rural themes that mark much of his verse. His best-known, and perhaps his greatest poem, The Great Hunger (1942), follows a potato farmer named Patrick Maguire through the famine of the 1840s and presents a blistering attack on the sexual and spiritual deprivation of rural Irish peasantry. Kavanagh later criticized the poem as lacking humor, and his subsequent work shows a more temperate acceptance of the ironic comedy of life, as in "Canal Bank Walk." (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Gaff Topsails von Patrick Kavanagh
Gaff Topsails tells the story of a number of Newfoundlanders on June 24, 1948. As school ends for the summer, and the town gets ready for the annual St. John the Baptist celebration and bonfire, the author brings us into the hearts and minds of several characters: 16-year-old Mary who is looking a sign of who her future husband will be; the woman who watches for her husband who's away at sea, the priest, the crazy lighthouse keeper whose lies once saved his colleagues, young Kevin Barron and his mute brother Michael, and others. The book isn't linear, and there isn't a single plot. Each character has his or her own perspective, what's important to them varies. Through them, the author gives us a fascinating portrait of 1948 Newfoundland. Reading this book was like looking a picture where layers are added to bring depth and understanding to the events. I liked it a lot.… (mehr)
½An interesting book with some very pretty moments. Takes place on June 24th -- the feast of St. John the Baptist -- in 1948, which was the year before Newfoundland entered into the Confederation of Canada. The chapter titled "The Kingdom of God" contains an origin myth for Newfoundland that is worth the price of admission.
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