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Blown to pieces in 1917, his unique voice remains suspended forever in time, in its first flowering. He was only 29 and destined, in the opinion of Lord Dunsany, to be the poet of the age.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-11855","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Day in the Death of Francis Ledwidge - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;A day in the Death of Francis Ledwidge&quot; is a new play by local writer Richard Ball\u00a0performed at Solstice over three nights, 01-03 October\u00a0under Covid restricted audience numbers\n\n&quot;I&#039;m alive and dead, a voice in your head&quot;\n\nFrancis Ledwidge, soldier and poet, bridges a century and more, to speak to us in his own words of his two great loves; the local landscape of Slane and Ellie Vaughey.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/a-day-in-the-death-of-francis-ledwidge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Day in the Death of Francis Ledwidge - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;A day in the Death of Francis Ledwidge&#8221; is a new play by local writer Richard Ball\u00a0performed at Solstice over three nights, 01-03 October\u00a0under Covid restricted audience numbers &#8220;I&#8217;m alive and dead, a voice in your head&#8221; Francis Ledwidge, soldier and poet, bridges a century and more, to speak to us in his own words [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/a-day-in-the-death-of-francis-ledwidge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CreativeIrl\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@creativeirl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/a-day-in-the-death-of-francis-ledwidge\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/a-day-in-the-death-of-francis-ledwidge\/\",\"name\":\"A Day in the Death of Francis Ledwidge - Creative Ireland Programme\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-29T03:01:51+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/a-day-in-the-death-of-francis-ledwidge\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/a-day-in-the-death-of-francis-ledwidge\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/a-day-in-the-death-of-francis-ledwidge\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"A Day in the Death of Francis Ledwidge\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Creative Ireland Programme\",\"description\":\"The Creative Ireland Programme is guided by a vision that every person in Ireland will have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential. 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