{"product_id":"patrick-kavanagh","title":"Patrick Kavanagh","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first paperback edition of Antoinette Quinn’s acclaimed biography of Patrick Kavanagh, the most important Irish poet between the death of Yeats and the rise of Heaney.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the reviews of the hardback edition:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e‘This is, quite simply, a magnificent work of love and scholarship and everybody with any interest in Ireland, and especially its poetry, must have a copy always to hand. The best biography I have read in years.’ John F. Deane, Irish Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e‘This is a brave, strong book.’ John Montague, Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e‘A strong and thoughtful work.’ Emanuel Keogh, Sunday Business Post\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e‘For anyone interested in Kavanagh, interested in the development of Irish poetry and the particularities of Irish culture, this book is, of course, an absolute must, but I would defy anyone to pick up this book and not find themselves immediately engrossed.’ Melissa Murray, Sunday Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e‘Antoinette Quinn has written a wonderful biography of this complex spirit: deeply researched, full of fascinating detail and entirely readable from beginning to end. This is the book we’ve been waiting for.’ Anthony Cronin, Sunday Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e‘. . . superbly researched and replete with arcane details of his life.’ Dan McCarthy, Irish Examiner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first paperback edition of the critically acclaimed biography, described by \u003cbr\u003e\r\none reviewer as 'a magnificent work of love and scholarship...the best \u003cbr\u003e\r\nbiography I have read in years'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55123737575811,"sku":"9780717136438","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0910\/3664\/7811\/files\/855dfc14953153eacfff915560a77205.jpg?v=1741007864","url":"https:\/\/shop.gill.ie\/products\/patrick-kavanagh","provider":"Gill","version":"1.0","type":"link"}