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'Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet'
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By: Dermot Bolger, Jennifer Johnston, Alice Curtayne
Publisher: New Island Books
Published: June 2017
Pages: 240
Categories: Biography
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781848406186
ASIN: 1848406185

Although he died at twenty-nine, having lived to see only one volume of his poems in print, today, 100 years after his death, the life of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge continues to fascinate successive generations of readers. Born in Slane, County Meath, in 1887, Ledwidge endured a childhood of poverty before leaving school at fourteen to work as a farm labourer, copper miner, road worker and union organiser. Throughout this time he produced an extraordinary body of exquisite lyric poetry. He burst onto the literary scene just before the First World War, in which he served in a British Army uniform despite being a devoted and active Irish Nationalist, and was killed in Flanders. This led to decades of suspicion and neglect in some quarters before Alice Curtayne published her acclaimed biography of the poet in 1972, rightly restoring his reputation. Detailing the remarkable life, loves and tragic death of an exceptionally gifted Irish poet, this classic biography also offers a memorable insight into the life and politics of Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century.

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