Patrick Kavanagh
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Sep 21, 2026
Mitzi RapkinHOST
Is there anything else you want to say before I get to the final question?
Sebastian BarryGUEST
I think Patrick Kavanagh put it best about all these things we worry about.
Sebastian BarryGUEST
The Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh.
Sebastian BarryGUEST
And it's a line in the poem, I don't even remember what the poem is, but I often say this to myself.
Sebastian BarryGUEST
And he says, nothing whatever is by love debarred.
Shane Daniel ByrneHOST
And the way he'd scoop it in his big hands.
Shane Daniel ByrneHOST
That sounds like a Patrick Kavanagh
Killian SundermannHOST
poem.
speaker_6VOICE_ACTOR
Yes.
Gary WadeGUEST
I mean, he, he was deeply...
Gary WadeGUEST
I mean, he was hugely influenced by Yeats, of course, and by people like Patrick Kavanagh.
Gary WadeGUEST
But, you know, and Yeats had a certain grandeur and...
Gary WadeGUEST
But Yeats had a grandeur and Seamus has his own grandeur, but it's much more intimate and much more earthy.
Jonathan WilliamsGUEST
Okay, gotcha.
Jonathan WilliamsGUEST
I represented the Kavanagh, Patrick Kavanagh estate for about 26 years.
Jonathan WilliamsGUEST
And, you know, Tom Kilroy, Morris Craig, the architectural historian, Ben Kiley, Aidan Higgins, John Montague, Gerald Doerr.
Jonathan WilliamsGUEST
You've referenced all of these when they were alive.
Fiona KellyHOST
Actor and director Adrian Dunbar is involved in this year's festival through his Unreal Cities arts project.
Fiona KellyHOST
The aspect of Patrick Kavanagh's work he's focusing on is the poet's little-known connection to beat poetry in the US in the 1950s and 60s.
Fiona KellyHOST
On Wednesday's Arena, Adrian told Cathy Rose O'Brien how he uncovered that connection.
Adrian DunbarGUEST
So I knew a guy called José Férez.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
Together, they've put the work of T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and Dermot Healey in dialogue with music and performance.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
And this month, they turn to Patrick Kavanagh.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
The Kavanagh Weekend is an annual festival marking the poet's legacy in Inishkeen, County Monaghan.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
But this year, Unreal Cities have taken on curating it, building the programme around Kavanagh's surprising connection to the Beat Generation.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
The festival runs from the 25th to the 27th of September with guests including Anne Waldman, Tommy Tiernan and the master musicians of Jajuka.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
Adrian joins me now on the line to tell us about it.
Adrian DunbarGUEST
around the edges, but mostly curation is about doing a huge amount of the work yourself.
Adrian DunbarGUEST
And Nick does a lot of that.
Michael O'DwyerGUEST
The first to, to, to launch a tirade against it was the then Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid.
Michael O'DwyerGUEST
But very interestingly, within a week, he tempered his opposition, uh, at the prompting of Patrick Kavanagh.
Michael O'DwyerGUEST
A lot of your listeners, Sean, may not know that, um, Donogh O'Malley was married to Hilda Moriarty, who was the muse for the, the, the famous song Raglan Road.
Michael O'DwyerGUEST
While she was a medical student in Dublin, she was very friendly with Patrick Kavanagh, and that f- uh, friendship extended to Donogh O'Malley when she married Donogh O'Malley.
Michael O'DwyerGUEST
So, uh, uh, uh, Kavanagh was very, very helpful to, to, um, to O'Malley getting this across the line.
Sean MoncrieffHOST
Mm-hmm.
Michael O'DwyerGUEST
The first to, to, to launch a tirade against it was the then Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid.
Michael O'DwyerGUEST
But very interestingly, within a week, he tempered his opposition, uh, at the prompting of Patrick Kavanagh.
Michael O'DwyerGUEST
A lot of your listeners, Sean, may not know that, um, Donogh O'Malley was married to Hilda Moriarty, who was the muse for the, the, the famous song Raglan Road.
Michael O'DwyerGUEST
While she was a medical student in Dublin, she was very friendly with Patrick Kavanagh, and that f- uh, friendship extended to Donogh O'Malley when she married Donogh O'Malley.
Michael O'DwyerGUEST
So, uh, uh, uh, Kavanagh was very, very helpful to, to, um, to O'Malley getting this across the line.
Sean MoncrieffHOST
Mm.
Fionna MurrayGUEST
He was a big Kavanagh.
Fionna MurrayGUEST
He introduced me to Patrick Kavanagh, actually, um, which was as soon as I started reading Kavanagh's, it was like a real, something very familiar dropped in there.
Fionna MurrayGUEST
And Russell Hart was on the year below, who's now in Galway.
Fionna MurrayGUEST
Really interesting guy, and Russell's practice is quite...
Oliver CallanHOST
If only you didn't waste so much time with chainsaws.
Sandi ToksvigGUEST
Well, Patrick Kavanagh said, and I should not be the person to quote Patrick Kavanagh to you, to be dead is to stop believing in the masterpieces we will begin tomorrow.
Oliver CallanHOST
That's not even a quote I'm familiar with.
Sandi ToksvigGUEST
Oh, isn't it great?
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