In 1931, 27-year-old Patrick Kavanagh walked 50 miles to Dublin to meet with George Russell, editor of the national newspaper The Irish Statesman. As time passed, Kavanagh would become one of Ireland’s most beloved poets.
At the time, though, he lived on his family’s small farm in Inniskeen and was no stranger to poverty and hardship. With little aptitude for his family’s shoemaking business, Kavanagh worked on the farm. Eventually, he began to write.
