If you turn right along the towpath of the canal, you can chat to Patrick Kavanagh, sitting on a Actually, it's a life-size bronze commemorating the Irish poet, who died in 1967.
The Irish poet died on October 1976. 
mnli hypothesis: The Irish poet died on October 1976.  premise: If you turn right along the towpath of the canal, you can chat to Patrick Kavanagh, sitting on a Actually, it's a life-size bronze commemorating the Irish poet, who died in 1967.