Patrick Galvin

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Patrick Galvin (born 1927) is an Irish writer and poet born in Cork off Barrack Street, a poor part of Cork known for its variety of local characters.

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[edit] Biography

Galvin spent some time at St. Conleth's reformatory (Daingean Co. Offaly). He spent time in England and joined the RAF in 1943 and returned to Ireland 1974. He is noted in particular for his poem The Mad Woman of Cork. He has been the writer in residence at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast (1974 - 1978), East Midlands, and University College Cork among others.

[edit] Selected Works

[edit] Prose and poetry

  • Song for a poor Boy, 1989,
  • Heart of Grace, 1957
  • Christ in London,1960
  • Wood Burners, 1973
  • Man on the Porch, 1979 (Martin Brien & O'Keeffe ISBN 0-85616-161-6)
  • New and Selected Poems, 1995

[edit] Plays

  • The Last Burning, 1974
  • We do it for Love, 1976

[edit] References

  • Theo Dorgan in The Encyclopaedia of Ireland, Gill and Macmillan, 2003 ISBN 0-7171-3000-2
  • Aosdana (Irish Guild of Creative Artists)
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