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 Industrial School (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. He has written several plays, most notably The Last Burning, which explored themes of ostracisation and witchcraft around the burning in County Tipperary, of Bridget Cleary by her husband, because he believed she was a witch. His memoir Song For a Raggy Boy became a film, starring Aidan Quin as a socialist returning to Ireland after the Spanish Civil War and taking up a post as a teacher in an Industrial School (Reformatory).
[edit] Selected Works
[edit] Prose and poetry
- Song for a poor Boy, 1989,
- Irish Songs of Resistance,1955
- Heart of Grace, 1957
- Christ in London,1960
- Letter to a British Soldier on Irish Soil 1972
- Wood Burners, 1973
- Man on the Porch, 1979 (Martin Brien & O'Keeffe ISBN 0-85616-161-6)
- Folk Tales for the General,1989
- The Death of Art O'Leary,1994
- New and Selected Poems, 1995
- The Raggy Boy Trilogy, 2002
[edit] Plays
- Cry The Believers,1960
- And Him Stretched,1961
- Boy in the Smoke,1965
- The Last Burning, 1974
- We do it for Love, 1976
- Nightfall to Belfast, 1976
- The Devil's Own People, 1976
- The Class of '39, 1980
- My Silver Bird, 1980
- City Child, Come Trailing Home,1983
- Landscape and Seascape, 1983
- Quartet for Nightown, 1984
- Wolfe, 1984
[edit] References
- Theo Dorgan in The Encyclopaedia of Ireland, Gill and Macmillan, 2003 ISBN 0-7171-3000-2
- Aosdana (Irish Guild of Creative Artists)
