Pat Ingoldsby

Patrick Ingoldsby was born in Malahide, County Dublin on 25 August 1942, a coastal town where childhood polio first marked his body before television cameras ever captured his spirit. He carried that early vulnerability into bright children's shows and noisy stage plays, then withdrew from public spectacle to sell poetry on Dublin streets. His life moved from institutional visibility to solitary creation, suggesting that the boy who survived illness in a small town became the man who refused to stop making work visible.