Pat Ingoldsby

Pat Ingoldsby is an Irish poet. He has hosted children's TV shows, written plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories, and been a newspaper columnist. Since the mid-nineties, he has withdrawn from the mass media, and is most widely known for his books of poems, and his selling of them on the streets of Dublin. The poems in his books vary starkly between humorous and sad.

External links

• Pat's Bit Of Cyberspace - An official homepage, run by a friend of Pat, for Pat
• Willow Publications - most positions are held by cats
• Irish playwright credits
• No More (or "Don't kill anyone for me"), a poem from How was it for you Doctor?, about the trouble in Northern Ireland

Weak links

Since Pat withdrew from the media spotlight before the blossoming of the Internet, it can be hard to find information about him and his work. The following links contains small bits of information. Sometimes that's as good as it gets.

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• A page mentioning Pat's father
• A page which mentions a 1983 films about Pat "Between Stations"