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Read by Eve Karpf, Kelly O'Doherty & Stephen Hogan (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins)
Francis Edward Ledwidge was born on 19th August, 1887 in the small village of Janeville in Slane, County Meath in Ireland to parents that believed strongly in education.
At the age of 5 his father died and the entire family, already desperately poor, were forced into work and by 13 the young Ledwidge took whatever job was to hand—from farm hand to road labourer. Throughout this time he applied himself to his poetry writing whenever and wherever he could. His poems were published on a regular basis from the age of 14 in the Drogheda Independent, his local paper.
Ledwidge was an ardent Nationalist and was well known for his Sinn Fein and trade union activism. This association got him fired from his job at the Slane copper mines, for organising a strike for better working conditions, but prompted his appointment as the Secretary to the Slane branch of the Meath Labour Union.
As a poet Ledwidge found patronage from Lord Dunsany who was well known in literary circles and was offered regular funds if he did not fight in World War I.
Ledwidge was originally opposed to the War but then, seeing the greater injustice of an enslaved Europe, changed his view and enlisted and fought for Lord Dunsany's regiment, part of the 10th Irish Division.
He thrived in the army finding promotion, happy to be serving Ireland and continuing to write but on 31st July 1917, whilst road laying for the Battle of Ypres, a German artillery shell exploded and he was blown to pieces. He was 29.
Francis Ledwidge, the patriot and nationalist has been called ‘The Soldier Poet’, ‘The Peasant Poet’ and the ‘Poet of the Blackbird’
In this compilation -
| 1 - The Poetry of Francis Ledwidge - An Introduction |
| 2 - Ireland by Francis Ledwidge |
| 3 - The Call to Ireland by Francis Ledwidge |
| 4 - At Currabwee by Francis Ledwidge |
| 5 - My Mother by Francis Ledwidge |
| 6 - Nocturne by Francis Ledwidge |
| 7 - The Sylph by Francis Ledwidge |
| 8 - Evening in February by Francis Ledwidge |
| 9 - Evening in England by Francis Ledwidge |
| 10 - A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge |
| 11 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge |
| 12 - Thoughts at the Trysting Stile by Francis Ledwidge |
| 13 - Evening in May by Francis Ledwidge |
| 14 - Autumn Evening in Serbia by Francis Ledwidge |
| 15 - An Attempt at a City Sunset by Francis Ledwidge |
| 16 - Behind the Closed Eye by Francis Ledwidge |
| 17 - The Visitation of Peace by Francis Ledwidge |
| 18 - To My Best Friend by Francis Ledwidge |
| 19 - In the Dusk by Francis Ledwidge |
| 20 - In a Cafe by Francis Ledwidge |
| 21 - Lady Fair by Francis Ledwidge |
| 22 - Low Moonland by Francis Ledwidge |
| 23 - Old Clo by Francis Ledwidge |
| 24 - The Maid in Low Moonland by Francis Ledwidge |
| 25 - The Weddiing Morning by Francis Ledwidge |
| 26 - To One Weeping by Francis Ledwidge |
| 27 - Youth by Francis Ledwidge |
| 28 - Had I a Golden Pound (After the Irish) by Francis Ledwidge |
| 29 - The Lanawn Shee by Francis Ledwidge |
| 30 - Fairies by Francis Ledwidge |
| 31 - The Little Children by Francis Ledwidge |
| 32 - A Fairy Hunt by Francis Ledwidge |
| 33 - Pan by Francis Ledwidge |
| 34 - The Find by Francis Ledwidge |
| 35 - The Shadow People by Francis Ledwidge |
| 36 - Bound to the Mast by Francis Ledwidge |
| 37 - To One Who Comes Now and Then by Francis Ledwidge |
| 38 - To an Old Quill of Lord Dunsany's by Francis Ledwidge |
| 39 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge |
| 40 - Waiting by Francis Ledwidge |
| 41 - Lament for Thomas McDonagh by Francis Ledwidge |
| 42 - The Dead Kings by Francis Ledwidge |
| 43 - The Lost Ones by Francis Ledwidge |
| 44 - An Old Pain by Francis Ledwidge |
| 45 - Growing Old by Francis Ledwidge |
| 46 - To One Dead by Francis Ledwidge |
| 47 - Soliloquy by Francis Ledwidge |
| 48 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge |
| 49 - At a Poet's Grave by Francis Ledwidge |
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