Born | Patrick D Ingoldsby 25 August 1942 Malahide, Dublin, Ireland |
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Occupation | TV host, columnist, poet |
Language | English, Irish |
Nationality | Irish |
Period | 1977 onwards |
Relatives | Maeve Ingoldsby (cousin) |
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Pat Ingoldsby (born 25 August 1942 in Malahide, Dublin, Ireland)[1] is an Irish poet and TV presenter. 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 Since the mid-1990s, he has withdrawn from the mass media and is most widely known for his collections of poetry, and his selling of them on the streets of Dublin (usually on Westmoreland Street or College Green).[2][3][4]