P.J. Kavanagh:
I added the full name of Kavanagh's first wife.
"Caroline Sarah Jane Philipps, known as Sally"
Also, as complementary information to his higher education as well as military service, I added, together with a citation:
Kavanagh due to his traumatic experience in Korea had a hard time taking the educational institution seriously, however, managed to pass the degree with second class honours. [1]
To the sentence starting with "He and Philipps wed in 1956" I added: in "The London Oratory" to add more detail about Kavanagh's place of residence during that time.
I also completed the sentence "His memoir about their relationship, The Perfect Stranger, won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize" by adding: "after a long publishing battle, where Kavanagh's work got turned down by several publishers."[2]
I added a link to the biography of Richard Hillary, where the Memorial Prize is mentioned.
I started a new section "Career" that I divided into subsections "Poetry and Journalism" as well as "Acting".
In the Poetry and Journalism section I put in brackets all the dates of when his poetry volumes were published.
I added a photo I had taken myself of a P.J. Kavanagh's book "Presences: New & Selected Poems":
I started a new section called "Kavanagh's Irish connections" where I wrote:
Both his parent’s relatives originated from Ireland; his father’s family came from County Carlow and his mother was thought to be born in County Roscommon, but was brought up in Scotland.[3]
P.J. Kavanagh spoke for RTÉ Radio 1 in 2013 about his national identity: “Even at school I was always regarded as ‘Irish’". "I was supposed to be good at rugby because I was Irish”, “It was an imprint”.[4] He wrote a travel biography Finding Connections (1990), where he uncovered his family roots, going back to his great-grandfather, Patrick, and taking on a journey to Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. He also published a literary companion Voices in Ireland (1994), about the country viewed through local literature.
I also added two citations (to an article and the broadcast) and linked: County Carlow, Country Roscommon and RTÉ Radio 1.
I rearranged the sections so the sub-titles match the information.
In the Poetry and Journalism section I wrote:
Most of his journalistic work was based on book and poetry reviews as well as his personal reflections and experience.[5] Here I also added a citation to his column in the Spectator Magazine.
In the Irish Connections section I mentioned his appearance on the Irish TV show "Father Ted" and 3 Irish actors he had a chance to play alongside with. I also cited the show from IMDb and added links to the sitcom as well as the mentioned actors.
In 1995 he made an appearance on Father Ted, a popular British sitcom following the lives of Irish priests, where he co-starred alongside actors like Dermot Morgan, Ardal O'Hanlon and Frank Kelly.[6]
I also added "alongside David Frost and Willie Rushton" to the last sentence in the Poetry and Journalism sub-section about his co-presented tv programmes.
To the "Kavanagh's Irish Connections" section I added a sub-section "Connection to the Irish Poet Patrick Kavanagh", where I wrote, together with a citation:
P.J. Kavanagh considered himself a great admirer of the Irish poet. The men met twice, where at first encounter Patrick Kavangh asked him why he wouldn’t change his name. From that moment on, Kavanagh started using the abbreviation ‘P.J.’ in his writing to avoid potential confusion.[7]
Then I created another section 'The Perfect Stranger', talking about Kavanagh's most famous work and memoir:
Published in 1966, Kavanagh’s first major literary success and the most recognised work of Kavanagh’s legacy, The Perfect Stranger, is an autobiographical novel about the mourning of his first wife, Sally. A memoir about marriage and the life after it, death and finding purpose, ‘The Perfect Stranger’ also dealt with Kavanagh’s sense of humour.[8]
During the process of writing The Perfect Stranger, P.J. Kavanagh remarried and lived with his family in rural England in Gloucestershire, residing in a renovated stone bar with a cottage nearby, where the poet had his creative space and writing room.[9]
- ^ "Kavanagh, Patrick Joseph Gregory (pen name P. J. Kavanagh) (1931–2015), poet, novelist, and writer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-110723?rskey=xjrha9&result=11 (inactive 1 November 2024). Retrieved 2024-10-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) - ^ "Kavanagh, Patrick Joseph Gregory (pen name P. J. Kavanagh) (1931–2015), poet, novelist, and writer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-110723#odnb-9780198614128-e-110723-bibitem-4. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ Caines, Michael (2015-09-03). "PJ Kavanagh obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ "PJ Kavanagh". RTE Radio. 2013-10-28. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ "Pj Kavanagh, Author at The Spectator". The Spectator. 2012-06-02. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
- ^ Father Ted (Comedy), Dermot Morgan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Frank Kelly, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Hat Trick Productions, 1995-04-21, retrieved 2024-10-29
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Schmidt, Michael (2015-09-05). "PJ Kavanagh, from The Perfect Stranger to Father Ted". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
- ^ Alasdair, Steven (Sep 3rd 2015). "Obituary: PJ Kavanagh, poet, author and broadcaster". The Scotsman. Retrieved Nov 16th 2024.
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