Peter Kavanagh (writer)

Peter Kavanagh (March 19, 1916 – January 27, 2006) was a writer, scholar, and publisher who collected, edited, and published the works of his brother, poet Patrick Kavanagh.

Kavanagh was born in the Parish of Inniskeen, Ireland, March 19, 1916, 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).

Kavanagh began his writing career as the historian of the Irish theatre. His first publication, The History of Irish Theatre (1947), detailed the origins and development of theatre in Ireland.

His next work was The History 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 (1950–51) and wrote articles pertaining to Ireland for the American Mercury magazine (1950–1952), under the editorship of William Bradford Huie.

In 1952 with Patrick Kavanagh, he founded Kavanagh’s Weekly, a literary journal created by the two men to give the poet a forum in which to express his point of view. It lasted only 13 weeks.

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