Peter Kavanagh

Peter Kavanagh (19 March 1916 – 27 January 2006) was a writer, scholar, and publisher who collected, edited, and published the works of his brother, poet Patrick Kavanagh. Education Kavanagh was born in the Parish of Inniskeen, Ireland, the youngest of ten children. He attended the local schools, continued to secondary school, and upon receiving his diploma from the Patrician Brothers School in Carrickmacross, Kavanagh attended St. Patrick's Teachers College in Dublin, where he became a certified National Teacher (1936), graduated M.A. from the National University of Ireland (1941), and Ph.D. from Trinity College, Dublin in (1944). Scholarship Kavanagh began his writing career as the historian of the Irish theatre. His first publication, The Irish Theatre (1946), detailed the origins and development of theatre in Ireland. His next work was The Story of the Abbey Theatre (New York, 1950). Seán O'Casey described it in a front-page review in the New York Times Book Review as "impartial history and the best book written on the subject". In 1950, Kavanagh edited the subject Ireland in the Encyclopædia Britannica (1950–1) and wrote articles pertaining to Ireland for the American Mercury magazine (1950–2), under the editorship of William Bradford Huie.