streets and pubs where he became both roamer and raconteur for many years. His language is also grounded in the Irish-language poetic tradition, oral and written, which can be both satirical and salacious in its approach to human follies. Regarding the oral tradition, Kennelly was a great reciter of verse with tremendous command and the rare ability to recall extended poems by memory, both his own work and others, and recite them on call verbatim. He commented on his own use of language: "Poetry is an attempt to cut through the effects of deadening familiarity … to reveal that inner sparkle." Personal life Kennelly married Margaret (Peggy) O'Brien in 1969. They were colleagues at the time, and she taught at English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst at the time of his death. Together, they had one child, Kristen “Doodle” Kennelly. They resided in Sandymount before getting divorced, which Kennelly attributed to his overindulgence in alcohol. He ultimately became teetotal in about 1985. Doodle died in April 2021, six months before her father. Kennelly died on 17 October 2021, at a care home in Listowel, where he resided in the two years leading up to his death. He was 85 years old. Awards and honours 1967 Æ Memorial Prize 1988 Critics Special Harvey's Award 1996 IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award 1999 American Ireland Fund Literary Award 2003 The Ireland Funds of France Wild Geese Award 2010 Irish PEN Award List of works Cast a Cold Eye (1959) with Rudi Holzapfel The Rain, the Moon (1961) with Rudi Holzapfel The Dark About Our Loves (1962) Rudi Holzapfel Green Townlands (1963) Rudi Holzapfel Let Fall No Burning Leaf (1963) The Crooked Cross (1963) novel; My Dark Fathers (1964) Up and at It (1965) Collection One: Getting Up Early (1966) Good Souls to Survive (1967) The Florentines (1967) novel Dream of a Black Fox (1968) Selected Poems (1969) A Drinking Cup, Poems from the Irish (1970) The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1970, 1981) editor Bread (1971) Love Cry (1972) Salvation, The Stranger (1972) The Voices (1973) Shelley in Dublin (1974) A Kind of Trust (1975) New and Selected Poems (1976) The Boats Are Home (Gallery Press, 1980) Moloney Up and at It (Mercier Press, 1984) Cromwell (Beaver Row Press, 1983; Bloodaxe Books, 1987) Mary, from the Irish of Muireadach Albanach Ó Dálaigh (Aisling Press, 1987) Landmarks of Irish Drama (Methuen, 1988) Love