Patrick Galvin
Patrick Galvin was born in Cork in 1927.
His poetry collections include Heart of Grace; Christ in London; The Wood-burners; Man on the Porch (1980); Madwoman of Cork (cassette recording); Folktales for the General (1990); and New and Selected Poems of Patrick Galvin (ed. Robert Welch, Cork University Press, 1997).
His plays include And Him Stretched; Cry the Believers; Nightfall to Belfast; The Last Burning; We Do It for Love; The Devil's Own People; and My Silver Bird.
His radio plays include City Child Come Tailing Home; Wolfe; Class of '39; Quartet for Nightown.
He has published two separate volumes of autobiography: Song for a Poor Boy (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1991); and Song for a Raggy Boy (Raven Arts Press, 1992). The third part, Song for a Fly Boy, is published with the first two as The Raggy Boy Trilogy (Dublin, New Island Books, 2002). Song for a Raggy Boy has been filmed, starring Aidan Quinn.
He is a member of Aosdána, and lives in Cork.
