The play, written by Waterford playwright Tom O’Brien, also details Kavanagh’s long-running rivalry with fellow writer Brendan Behan.

The son of a shoemaker and small farmer, Patrick Kavanagh was born in the village of Iniskeen, County Monaghan in 1904 and is now regarded as Ireland’s most important poet after WB Yeats. He moved to Dublin in his mid-thirties where he lived in poverty for most of the time, surviving on handouts, the occasional bit of journalism but mostly being supported by his younger brother, Peter.

‘On Raglan Road’ – immortalized in song by Luke Kelly – is a poem about Kavanagh’s love for Limerick woman Hilda, which was doomed from the start. Hilda, originally from the South Circular Road, was an enchantingly beautiful woman, friend of actor Richard Harris and eventual wife to prominent politician Donogh O’Malley.

John Dunne who has taken the essence of Kavanagh and placed it on the stage directs the play.

Meanwhile, LIT Millennium Theatre wills stage ‘The Woman In Black’, a spine-tingling and heart-stopping thriller from October 16 to 18. This is a revival of Michael Scott’s most terrifying production, which originally played at the Olympia and Tivoli Theatres in Dublin.

For further information or bookings on either of these two plays contact 061-322322 or log onto www.litmt.ie.

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