Francis Ledwidge: A Life of the Poet

by Alice Curtayne

Book Overview

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 ferocious hardship before leaving school at fourteen to work as a farm labourer, copper miner, road worker and union organiser. Throughout this time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848406185
• ISBN13: 9781848406186
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: New Island Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.4"