A bronze sculpture of Patrick Kavanagh (1904–67), erected in 1968, shows the poet with arms and legs crossed in one of his favorite spots. It is inspired by his poem "Lines written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin."
Patrick Kavanagh Statue
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