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We are guessing that poet and President Michael D Higgins, seen here beside the Patrick Kavanagh statue in 1994, can recite a verse or two. Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

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Poll: Can you recite a few lines of Patrick Kavanagh's poetry?

Give it to us straight. Be honest.

PATRICK KAVANAGH, POET and novelist, died 50 years ago today. Some of his best-known poems – such as On Raglan Road, Stony Grey Soil, Inniskeen Road: July Evening – are part of the national psyche.

If you were put on the spot, would you be able to recite a few lines of a Patrick Kavanagh poem? (Feel free to entertain us with your favourite lines in the comments – no Googling now…)

Poll Results:

Yes, a few lines (3809)

No, but I have read some (1471)

No, never read him (1191)

Yes, I can recite a full poem (1137)

Yes, I can recite a full poem
Yes, a few lines
No, but I have read some
No, never read him

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