Patrick Kavanagh's 50th Anniversary Graveside Tribute

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The Patrick Kavanagh Centre & Monaghan County Council present a graveside tribute to poet and writer Patrick Kavanagh featuring a number of well known poets and writers from across county Monaghan and beyond.

Patrick Kavanagh was born in County Monaghan in 1904. He died on 30th November 1967, and is buried at the former St. Mary’s Church, Inniskeen, now home to the Patrick Kavanagh Resource Centre.

To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, at noon on Thursday November 30th, a cast of Ireland’s finest living writers and poets gathered at his graveside to deliver a spine-tingling recital ten of Kavanagh’s best-loved work.

8:30 John McArdle, Stony Grey Soil
10:37 Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, In Memory Of My Mother/Shancoduff
13:20 Eugene McCabe, Come Dance With Kitty Stobling
14:46 Tommy McArdle, Innocence/Prelude
15:57 Brian Lynch, Thank You, Thank You
18:50 Evelyn Conlon, Bluebells For Love
20:46 Theo Dorgan, Memory Of My Father
21:35 Pat McCabe, Father Mat
22:58 Mary O’Donnell, Advent
25:15 Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn, on uileann pipes.

Followed by remarks from Fiona Jane Hyslop, Cabinet secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs in the Scottish Government, and the tribute concluded with
55:00 Ben Reel performing Raglan Road.