Patrick Kavanagh Evening Course Announcement

Six Week Course on the Life and Work of Patrick Kavanagh by Dr Una Agnew

Patrick Kavanagh Centre in conjunction with Carrickmacross Library will run a six week course on the life and work of beloved poet Patrick Kavanagh.  The course will be delivered by Dr Una Agnew, author of ‘A Buttonhole in Heaven: The Mystical Imagination of Patrick Kavanagh’.  Probably the leading expert on the poet and his life Dr Agnew along with her brother Art, has also produced an audio biography of Patrick Kavanagh  called ‘Love’s Doorway to Life: An Alternative Biography of Patrick Kavanagh.’

This is a wonderful and unique learning opportunity for anyone with an interest in Patrick Kavanagh or indeed life in Monaghan & Ireland in the 20th Century.

A Comprehensive Course on the Poet Patrick Kavanagh 1904-1967

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2023 @ CARRICKMACROSS LIBRARY

By author and lecturer Dr Una Agnew SSL

Talks from 7pm – 8pm

Admission FREE, Booking Essential

For more information and to book a place contact the Patrick Kavanagh Centre 042 9378560 or email kavanaghcentre@monaghancoco.ie

COURSE PROGRAMME

Wed Sept 13^th

“I dabbled in poetry and discovered it was my life”
Kavanagh of the whitethorn hedges of Monaghan.

Wed Sept 20^th

Kavanagh’s “Genealogical Rosary”
A Romantic Story of the poet’s background.

Wed Sept 27^th

Kavanagh’s Exile in Dublin
“On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.”

Wed Oct 4^th

The Women in Kavanagh’s Life
“Surely my God is Feminine.”

Wed Oct 11^th

Title: Kavanagh’s Mid-life crisis- Audit and Recovery “Nineteen-fifty-four hold on!”

Wed Oct 18^th

Kavanagh rehearses his grand finale!
“It is October over all my life!”
He knew posterity has no use for anything but the soul.