Prison and finally with University College Cork where he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature in 2006. Galvin cofounded the 'Poetry Now Festival', which went on to become Ireland's leading poetry festival. With his wife Mary Johnson he co-founded the Munster Literature Centre in Cork which has given birth to the Frank O'Connor Festival and to the 'Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, one of the largest in the world. Throughout his life he has adapted his own work and other works for both BBC radio and RTÉ radio. He travelled widely giving readings of both his prose and poetry, much of which is recorded in the Library of Congress in Washington. In 1984 he was elected to Aosdána. Patrick suffered a stroke in 2003. In spite of this, in 2005, the year of the City of Culture Cork, he co-translated the collection of poetry 'Everything But You' from the original poetry of Turkish poet, Yilmaz Odabashi. Latterly the constraints of his lengthy illness and his inability to give creative expression to his thoughts on the current state of Ireland, with its culture of greed, exploitation and refusal to deal with systematic physical and sexual clerical abuse, contributed greatly to his demise. He was survived by his daughter Grainne and son Macdara from his marriage to Mary Johnson and his daughter Christine Bygraves from a previous marriage. His widow Mary Johnson died a few months after his death. He was predeceased by his oldest son Patrick Newley in 2009. Selected works Music history Irish Songs of Resistance,Worker's Music Association 1955 Prose and poetry Heart of Grace, Linden Press 1957 Christ in London, Linden Press 1960 Five Cork Poets, Mercier Press 1970 Letter to a British Soldier on Irish Soil 1972 The Wood Burners, New Writers Press, Dublin 1973 The Prisoners of the Tower, Cork University Press 1979 Man on the Porch, 1979 (Martin Brien & O'Keeffe () Folk Tales for the General, Raven Arts Press, Dublin, 1989 Song for a Poor Boy, Raven Arts Press, Dublin 1990, Song For a Raggy Boy, Raven Arts Press, Dublin 1991 The Death of Art O'Leary, 1994 New and Selected Poems, Cork University Press, 1996 The Raggy Boy Trilogy, New Island Books, Dublin 2002 Plays And Him Stetched, 1961 Unity Theatre London Cry The Believers, 1962 Eblana Theatre, Dublin And Him Stretched, 1962 Eblana Theatre, Dublin Boy in the Smoke, 1965 BBC Wednesday Play