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Henry L. Gavigan

The Bard of Kilmactigue (AKA Henry L. Gavan) Henry Lawrence Gavigan (1872-1933), was one of eleven children. Born into poverty, to parents who had survived the Great Famine, he grew up in an Ireland that was conflicted between its loyalty to the British Empire on the one hand and a desperate struggle to escape it […]