“Of myself I am a fast writer and very prolific. I have long silences, often for weeks, then the mood comes over me and I must write and write, no matter where I be or what the circumstances are.”
About Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917
In the annals of Irish literature, few figures embody the tragic intersection of artistic promise and historical circumstance as poignantly as Francis Edward Ledwidge. Born into rural poverty in County Meath in 1887 and killed on a Belgian battlefield in 1917, Ledwidge's thirty years encompassed a meteoric rise from…