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The Great Hunger

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In Patrick Kavanagh
…poet whose long poem The Great Hunger put him in the front rank of modern Irish poets.
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Irish literature

In Irish literature: Ireland and Northern Ireland
…work is his long poem The Great Hunger (1942), in which the celibate, lonely life of a farmer is laid out in a bleak, earthy lyricism. Kavanagh powerfully shaped the poetry of a later generation of writers, in particular that of Seamus Heaney.
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