 |
|
Comments about Patrick Kavanagh
|
 |
|
Cam Lyttle
(4/16/2010 4:16:00 PM)
|
|
|
|
On Raglan Road was actually set to music by Kavanagh himself and the lead singer of The Dubliners, Luke Kelly. It is set to the music of the traditional Irish song 'Fainne Geal an Lae' (The Dawning of the Day) . This original version is by far the best of the numerous versions now on offer, truly capturing the feel of the poem (So much so it is used as a learning aid in Leaving Certificate English) , and i would wholly recommend anyone to give it a listen.
|
|
|
|
Michael Walsh
(4/20/2008 9:41:00 PM)
|
|
|
|
Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt does an incredible job with Kavanagh's 'On Raglan Road' which she has set to music in her new album 'Nights from the Alhambra'. I mean this dame sings like a thrush! If one buys only one music CD a year, this would be it.
|
|
|
|
Alice Sinnott
(10/9/2003 7:00:00 AM)
|
|
|
|
I would like a copy of the poem A View of God and the Devil by Patrick Kavanagh. Your help would be much appreciated.
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
Shancoduff
|
 |
My black hills have never seen the sun rising,
Eternally they look north towards Armagh.
Lot's wife would not be salt if she had been
Incurious as my black hills that are happy
When dawn whitens Glassdrummond chapel.
My hills hoard the bright shillings of March
While the sun searches in every pocket.
They are my Alps and I have climbed the Matterhorn
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Poets
