- Patrick Galvin
Patrick Galvin (born 1927) is an Irish
writer andpoet born in Cork off Barrack Street, a poor part of Cork known for its variety of local characters.Biography
Galvin spent some time at St. Conleth's Industrial School,
Daingean ,Co. Offaly . He spent time inEngland and joined theRAF in 1943 and returned to Ireland 1974. He is noted in particular for his poem "The Mad Woman of Cork". He has been the writer in residence at the Lyric Theatre inBelfast (1974 - 1978),East Midlands , andUniversity College Cork among others. He has written eight stage plays, including "The Last Burning", which explored themes of ostracisation andwitchcraft around the burning inCounty Tipperary , ofBridget Cleary by her husband, because he believed she was a witch. His memoir "Song for a Raggy Boy " became a film, starringAidan Quinn as asocialist returning to Ireland after theSpanish Civil War and taking up a post as a teacher in an Industrial School (Reformatory). Galvin suffered a serious stroke in 2003 but still continues to translate poetry.elected Works
Prose and poetry
*"Song for a poor Boy",Raven Arts Press, Dublin 1990,
*"Irish Songs of Resistance",Worker's Music Association 1955
*"Heart of Grace", Linden Press 1957
*"Christ in London", Linden Press 1960
*"Five Cork Poets", Mercier Press 1970
*"Letter to a British Soldier on Irish Soil" 1972
*"Wood Burners", New Writers Press, Dublin 1973
*"Man on the Porch", 1979 (Martin Brien & O'Keeffe ISBN 0-85616-161-6)
*"Folk Tales for the General",Raven Arts Press, Dublin,1989
*"The Death of Art O'Leary",1994
*"New and Selected Poems",Cork University Press,1996
*"The Raggy Boy Trilogy, New Island Books, Dublin 2002Plays
*"Cry The Believers",1960 (Eblana Theatre, Dublin)
*"And Him Stretched",1961 (Eblana Theatre, Dublin)
*"Boy in the Smoke",1965 (BBC Wednesday Play)
*"The Last Burning", 1974 (Lyric Theatre, Belfast)
*"We Do It For Love", 1975 (Lyric Theatre, Belfast)
*"Nightfall to Belfast", 1973 (Lyric Theatre, Belfast)
*"The Devil's Own People", 1976 (Abbey Theatre, Dublin)
*"The Class of '39", 1980 (BBC Radio 4)
*"My Silver Bird", 1981 Lyric Theatre, Belfast
*"City Child, Come Trailing Home",1983, RTÉ Radio
*"Landscape and Seascape", 1983, RTÉ Radio
*"Quartet for Nightown", 1984, RTÉ Radio
*"Wolfe", 1984, RTÉ Radio
*"The Cage", 2006, Cork Arts Theatre, CorkReferences
* Irish Writers Online: [http://www.irishwriters-online.com/patrickgalvin.html]
* Aosdana (Irish Guild of Creative Artists)
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