Patrick Kavanagh

The Irish Renaissance had largely succeeded in bringing folk life to the center of cultural consciousness by the 1930s. ... (more)

The Irish Renaissance had largely succeeded in bringing folk life to the center of cultural consciousness by the 1930s. At that time, the poet Patrick Kavanagh—hailing from the rural farmland—emerged with a critique of the sentimentality and nostalgia of Yeats’s generation. Explore how the next wave of poets carved out their own views of Ireland. (less)