Patrick Kelly's Poetry
Shortly before his death in 1940, while compiling the collection of his poems later published in the "The Salley Ring" (Brown & Nolan, 1941) Patrick Kelly wrote to a friend "I've picked out works having the flavour of Connemara and the smell of the turf smoke."
A perfect description and echoed by fellow poet, George Russel (Æ) who wrote that Patrick's "Ireland is far and away the best Ireland. It is the earth under foot, the skies, the birds, the fields, hedges, the streams."
Yes, his poetry is rooted in the landscape of the west of Ireland that he loved. The reader can join him there and experience the people and places he knew, their saints, dreams, visions, and devotions, and all that was very personal to him and them.
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