page_title: Patrick Kavanagh
section_title: Marriage and death
hierarchical_section_title: Patrick Kavanagh / Life and work / Marriage and death
caption_attribution_description: … pondering the Stony Grey Soil of Monaghan at his native Inniskeen. The Dictionary of Irish Biography entry for Patrick Kavanagh gives 21 or 23 October 1904 as his birth date, but most other sources say that Patrick Kavanagh was born on 21 October, which is 109 years ago today. Photographer: &lt;a href="http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000046408" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Elinor Wiltshire&lt;/a&gt; Date: 1963 NLI Ref.: &lt;a href="http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000050188" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;WIL pk5[2]&lt;/a&gt;
context_page_description: Patrick Kavanagh was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". He is known for his accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace. He also played as a goalkeeper for his local Gaelic football club.
context_section_description: Kavanagh married his long-term companion Katherine Barry Moloney (niece of Kevin Barry) in April 1967 and they set up home together on the Waterloo Road in Dublin. Kavanagh fell ill at the first performance of Tarry Flynn by the Abbey Theatre company in Dundalk Town Hall and died a few days later, on 30 November 1967, in a Dublin, in Merrion Nursing Home. His grave is in Inniskeen adjoining the Patrick Kavanagh Centre. His wife Katherine died in 1989; she is also buried there.
caption: The poet "pondering the Stony Grey Soil of Monaghan at his native Inniskeen" in 1963
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