UCD LIBRARY CULTURAL HERITAGE COLLECTIONS
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What’s wrong with Ireland? The question seems to be an ever-popular one, from the time of Gerald of Wales to that of Gay Byrne and beyond. We can think of W.B. Yeats raging against fumblers in the greasy till, James Joyce calling his homeland the “old sow that eats her farrow”, and Samuel Beckett declaring …
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Just over a decade before his death in 1967, the poet Patrick Kavanagh – a man equally at home in the fields of Monaghan and the pubs of Dublin – visited America for the first time. In the Kavanagh Archive at UCD Special Collections the poet’s two late transatlantic trips can be traced through letters and …
In 1960 the New York Public Library sued Peter Kavanagh, for reproducing the letters of John Quinn which they held in their care. The letters were transferred to the library in 1924. Under an agreement between the library and Quinn’s estate they were not to be published until 1988. Peter Kavanagh decided to ignore this …