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[[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Literature]] | [[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Literature]] | ||
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His 1953 poem "If Ever You Go To Dublin Town" was quoted, in part, by Morrissey Central (March 2024). | His 1953 poem "If Ever You Go To Dublin Town" was quoted, in part, by Morrissey Central (March 2024).<br> | ||
It was mentioned prior to this in [[Mention::Autobiography]]: | |||
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Nellie is my father’s sister, and in 1973 she innocently asks me: ‘Have you considered being a butcher when you leave school?’ Nellie is thoughtful – and very kind, but her question is met with a silent howl. Why would I want to butcher anything? Her home town of Dublin offers Patrick Kavanagh, who died in 1967 at 62: | |||
On Pembroke Road look out for my ghost<br> | |||
Disheveled with shoes untied,<br> | |||
Playing through the railings with little children<br> | |||
Whose children have long since died<br> | |||
and, wrongly, unnecessarily, this child weeps, full of the foolish embarrassment that his father has clearly marked out. | |||
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