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  1. A Childhood Christmas – Patrick Kavanagh

    One side of the potato-pits was white with frost -
    How wonderful that was, how wonderful!
    And when we put our ears to the paling-post
    The music that came out was magical.

    The light between the ricks of hay and straw
    Was a hole in Heaven's gable. An apple tree
    With its December-glinting fruit we saw -
    O you, Eve, were the world that tempted me.

    To eat the knowledge that grew in clay
    And death the germ within it! Now and then
    I can remember something of the gay
    Garden that was childhood's. Again.

    The tracks of cattle to a drinking-place,
    A green stone lying sideways in a ditch,
    Or any common sight, the transfigured face
    Of a beauty that the world did not touch.

    My father played the melodion
    Outside at our gate;
    There were stars in the morning east
    And they danced to his music.

    Across the wild bogs his melodion called
    To Lennons and Callans.
    As I pulled on my trousers in a hurry
    I knew some strange thing had happened.

    Outside in the cow-house my mother
    Made the music of milking;
    The light of her stable-lamp was a star
    And the frost of Bethlehem made it twinkle.

    A water-hen screeched in the bog,
    Mass-going feet
    Crunched the wafer-ice on the pot-holes,
    Somebody wistfully twisted the bellows wheel.

    My child poet picked out the letters
    On the grey stone,
    In silver the wonder of a Christmas townland,
    The winking glitter of a frosty dawn.

    Cassiopeia was over
    Cassidy's hanging hill,
    I looked and three whin bushes rode across
    The horizon — the Three Wise Kings.

    And old man passing said:
    ‘Can't he make it talk -
    The melodion.' I hid in the doorway
    And tightened the belt of my box-pleated coat.

    I nicked six nicks on the door-post
    With my penknife's big blade -
    there was a little one for cutting tobacco.
    And I was six Christmases of age.

    My father played the melodion,
    My mother milked the cows,
    And I had a prayer like a white rose pinned
    On the Virgin Mary's blouse.

    by Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967)

    Here is the poem, beautifully read by Stephen Rea:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwPNf0qtX44

    #AChildhoodChristmas #PatrickKavanagh #StephenRea

  2. A Childhood Christmas – Patrick Kavanagh

    One side of the potato-pits was white with frost -
    How wonderful that was, how wonderful!
    And when we put our ears to the paling-post
    The music that came out was magical.

    The light between the ricks of hay and straw
    Was a hole in Heaven's gable. An apple tree
    With its December-glinting fruit we saw -
    O you, Eve, were the world that tempted me.

    To eat the knowledge that grew in clay
    And death the germ within it! Now and then
    I can remember something of the gay
    Garden that was childhood's. Again.

    The tracks of cattle to a drinking-place,
    A green stone lying sideways in a ditch,
    Or any common sight, the transfigured face
    Of a beauty that the world did not touch.

    My father played the melodion
    Outside at our gate;
    There were stars in the morning east
    And they danced to his music.

    Across the wild bogs his melodion called
    To Lennons and Callans.
    As I pulled on my trousers in a hurry
    I knew some strange thing had happened.

    Outside in the cow-house my mother
    Made the music of milking;
    The light of her stable-lamp was a star
    And the frost of Bethlehem made it twinkle.

    A water-hen screeched in the bog,
    Mass-going feet
    Crunched the wafer-ice on the pot-holes,
    Somebody wistfully twisted the bellows wheel.

    My child poet picked out the letters
    On the grey stone,
    In silver the wonder of a Christmas townland,
    The winking glitter of a frosty dawn.

    Cassiopeia was over
    Cassidy's hanging hill,
    I looked and three whin bushes rode across
    The horizon — the Three Wise Kings.

    And old man passing said:
    ‘Can't he make it talk -
    The melodion.' I hid in the doorway
    And tightened the belt of my box-pleated coat.

    I nicked six nicks on the door-post
    With my penknife's big blade -
    there was a little one for cutting tobacco.
    And I was six Christmases of age.

    My father played the melodion,
    My mother milked the cows,
    And I had a prayer like a white rose pinned
    On the Virgin Mary's blouse.

    by Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967)

    Here is the poem, beautifully read by Stephen Rea:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwPNf0qtX44

    #AChildhoodChristmas #PatrickKavanagh #StephenRea

  3. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #OnThisDay

  4. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #OnThisDay

  5. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #OnThisDay

  6. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #OnThisDay

  7. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #OnThisDay

  8. Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan on 21 October 1904. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    Picture: Patrick Kavanagh in a field with a bucket and a spade over his shoulder.

    Edit: I'm advised by @psneeze that it is probably an ordinary spade, not a sleán, that that he's probably off to dig some potatoes rather than turf.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Monaghan #OnThisDay

  9. Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan on 21 October 1904. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    Picture: Patrick Kavanagh in a field with a bucket and a spade over his shoulder.

    Edit: I'm advised by @psneeze that it is probably an ordinary spade, not a sleán, that that he's probably off to dig some potatoes rather than turf.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Monaghan #OnThisDay

  10. Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan on 21 October 1904. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    Picture: Patrick Kavanagh in a field with a bucket and a spade over his shoulder.

    Edit: I'm advised by @psneeze that it is probably an ordinary spade, not a sleán, that that he's probably off to dig some potatoes rather than turf.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Monaghan #OnThisDay

  11. Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan on 21 October 1904. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    Picture: Patrick Kavanagh in a field with a bucket and a spade over his shoulder.

    Edit: I'm advised by @psneeze that it is probably an ordinary spade, not a sleán, that that he's probably off to dig some potatoes rather than turf.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Monaghan #OnThisDay

  12. Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan on 21 October 1904. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    Picture: Patrick Kavanagh in a field with a bucket and a spade over his shoulder.

    Edit: I'm advised by @psneeze that it is probably an ordinary spade, not a sleán, that that he's probably off to dig some potatoes rather than turf.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Monaghan #OnThisDay

  13. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #OnThisDay

  14. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #OnThisDay

  15. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #OnThisDay

  16. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #OnThisDay

  17. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #OnThisDay

  18. "...the plight
    Of being king and government and nation.
    A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king
    Of banks and stones and every blooming thing" ~ Inishkeen Road: July Evening #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #Ireland #Eire

  19. "...the plight
    Of being king and government and nation.
    A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king
    Of banks and stones and every blooming thing" ~ Inishkeen Road: July Evening #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #Ireland #Eire

  20. Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan on 21 October 1904. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Monaghan #OnThisDay

  21. Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan on 21 October 1904. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Monaghan #OnThisDay

  22. Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan on 21 October 1904. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Monaghan #OnThisDay

  23. Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan on 21 October 1904. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Monaghan #OnThisDay

  24. Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan on 21 October 1904. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #PatrickKavanagh #Monaghan #OnThisDay

  25. The edits went in. And totally unconnectedly but I decided to take a selfie with Paddy Kavanagh today. His is the poetry I dislike the least!! allpoetry.com/Canal-Bank-Walk. #patrickkavanagh #AmEditing #AmWriting

  26. The edits went in. And totally unconnectedly but I decided to take a selfie with Paddy Kavanagh today. His is the poetry I dislike the least!! allpoetry.com/Canal-Bank-Walk. #patrickkavanagh #AmEditing #AmWriting

  27. The edits went in. And totally unconnectedly but I decided to take a selfie with Paddy Kavanagh today. His is the poetry I dislike the least!! allpoetry.com/Canal-Bank-Walk. #patrickkavanagh #AmEditing #AmWriting

  28. This week’s Folk Show includes a Claddagh Records showcase featuring Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly, ØXN and more. Plus, we have plenty of other new folk music releases, including Peatbog Faeries, Kathryn Tickell, Calum Stewart, The Routes Quartet, Grace Smith Trio, Filkin’s Drift and more. #folk #folkmusic #irishtraditionalmusic #poetry #seamusheaney #patrickkavanagh folkradio.co.uk/2023/08/folk-s

  29. This week’s Folk Show includes a Claddagh Records showcase featuring Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly, ØXN and more. Plus, we have plenty of other new folk music releases, including Peatbog Faeries, Kathryn Tickell, Calum Stewart, The Routes Quartet, Grace Smith Trio, Filkin’s Drift and more. #folk #folkmusic #irishtraditionalmusic #poetry #seamusheaney #patrickkavanagh folkradio.co.uk/2023/08/folk-s

  30. This week’s Folk Show includes a Claddagh Records showcase featuring Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly, ØXN and more. Plus, we have plenty of other new folk music releases, including Peatbog Faeries, Kathryn Tickell, Calum Stewart, The Routes Quartet, Grace Smith Trio, Filkin’s Drift and more. #folk #folkmusic #irishtraditionalmusic #poetry #seamusheaney #patrickkavanagh folkradio.co.uk/2023/08/folk-s

  31. This week’s Folk Show includes a Claddagh Records showcase featuring Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly, ØXN and more. Plus, we have plenty of other new folk music releases, including Peatbog Faeries, Kathryn Tickell, Calum Stewart, The Routes Quartet, Grace Smith Trio, Filkin’s Drift and more. #folk #folkmusic #irishtraditionalmusic #poetry #seamusheaney #patrickkavanagh folkradio.co.uk/2023/08/folk-s

  32. This week’s Folk Show includes a Claddagh Records showcase featuring Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly, ØXN and more. Plus, we have plenty of other new folk music releases, including Peatbog Faeries, Kathryn Tickell, Calum Stewart, The Routes Quartet, Grace Smith Trio, Filkin’s Drift and more. #folk #folkmusic #irishtraditionalmusic #poetry #seamusheaney #patrickkavanagh folkradio.co.uk/2023/08/folk-s

  33. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #IrishPoetry #Irish

  34. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #IrishPoetry #Irish

  35. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #IrishPoetry #Irish

  36. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #IrishPoetry #Irish

  37. On this day in 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist, died. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".

    #PatrickKavanagh #Poetry #IrishPoetry #Irish