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We are guessing that poet and President Michael D Higgins, seen here beside the Patrick Kavanagh statue in 1994, can recite a verse or two. Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie
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Poll: Can you recite a few lines of Patrick Kavanagh's poetry?
Give it to us straight. Be honest.
PATRICK KAVANAGH, POET and novelist, died 50 years ago today. Some of his best-known poems – such as On Raglan Road, Stony Grey Soil, Inniskeen Road: July Evening – are part of the national psyche.
If you were put on the spot, would you be able to recite a few lines of a Patrick Kavanagh poem? (Feel free to entertain us with your favourite lines in the comments – no Googling now…)
Poll Results:
Yes, a few lines (3811)
No, but I have read some (1471)
No, never read him (1191)
Yes, I can recite a full poem (1137)
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