George William Russell, Lennox Robinson, and for a time Frank O'Connor. O'Connor however came to regard Higgins as untrustworthy and a troublemaker, and describes him unflatteringly in his memoir My Father's Son. For Yeats, Higgins seems to have felt a genuine affection, once remarking that he never left Yeats' house without "feeling like a thousand dollars". He was also capable of great kindness and generosity to younger writers like Patrick Kavanagh. Bibliography His five collections of poems are: Salt Air (1923) Island Blood (1925) The Dark Breed (1927) Arable Holdings (1933) The Gap of Brightness (1940) Plays Katie Roche (1937) - (Tour Manager) References External links F.R. Higgins at The Teresa Deevy Archive F.R. Higgins at The Abbey Theatre Archive 1896 births 1941 deaths Irish poets People from County Mayo 20th-century poets