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'On Raglan Road' was later famously recorded by Luke Kelly based on a suggestion of Kavanagh's. The poem is based around his infatuation with Hilda Moriarty, a beautiful young woman who the poet fell for in 1944, despite being nearly twice her age. For over a year he chased Hilda, to no avail, and she finally fell in love with and married Donogh O'Malley (later a government minister). When Kavanagh died in November 1967, Hilda sent a wreath of red roses in the form of an H.
