A Poet in the House: Patrick Kavanagh at Priory Grove by Elizabeth O'Toole

A Poet in the House: Patrick Kavanagh at Priory Grove by Elizabeth O'ToolePatrick Kavanagh (1904 67) was one of Ireland's foremost poets, best known for 'The Great Hunger' and novel Tarry Flynn. He is also remembered for his cantankerous, sometimes volatile nature, fuelled by alcohol. In A Poet in the House: Patrick Kavanagh at Priory Grove, a memoir by Elizabeth O'Toole, we encounter a new Patrick Kavanagh. In 1961, the poet lived with the O'Toole family in Stillorgan for six months at a crucial point in his life, when he

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