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Presented by Loopline Film
We are delighted to screen Sé Merry Doyle's award-winning film Patrick Kavanagh: No Man's Fool to mark the 90th anniversary of the publication of Kavanagh's first poetry collection, The Ploughman and Other Poems.
The film maps out Kavanagh's life from his native Inniskeen in County Monaghan to Dublin where he found success and failure in equal measure. Against the odds, Kavanagh survived great poverty and ill health to deliver a canon of powerful and evocative poetry.
We are offered a rich and diverse portrait of the poet with contributions from TP McKenna, John Montague, Leland Bardwell, Macdara Woods, Dermot Healy, Kavanagh's one-time girlfriend Deirdre Manifold and poetry readings by Gerard McSorley.
Director Sé Merry Doyle will introduce the film and lead a post-screening Q&A.
Running time: 70 minutes
Screened with kind permission of the Irish Film Institute.
