Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, on 21 October, 1904. His father was a cobbler and farmer and grew up in the shadow of the "hungry hills" of Ulster. Kavanagh left school intending to follow in his father's footsteps but turned his back on farming.
 
He was immortalized according to his wishes: "O commemorate me with no hero-courageous/ Tomb -- just a canal-bank seat for the passer-by."
 
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