“If you visit the Front don’t forget to come up the line at night to…” — Francis Ledwidge

“If you visit the Front don’t forget to come up the line at night to watch the German rockets. They have white crests which throw a pale flame across no-man’s-land. It is like the end of a beautiful world.”

Finds haunting beauty within a landscape created by war · Letter to Edward Marsh, 1 July 1917

Francis Ledwidge

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…

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