Ledwidge was natural at Slane in Irel&, into a big and poverty-destitute personal. His parents believed around generating their youngsters a better education it may handle, however Francis's father died after he was lone 5, & he was send to function at an early age, yet sorting through employment inside the copper mine. He experienced already begun to write poetry, & won a patronage of the writer, Lord Dunsany, who introduced him into literary circles.

Fallowing an unhappy romance sustaining the girl of the moneyed personal world health organization despised him, Ledwidge became a founder member of the nationalist Irish Volunteers. All a same, on the irruption of war, he joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Dublin. Within 1915 he saw action at Suvla Bay in Turkey. With survived Gallipoli, he was dismayed by the news of the Easter Rising, and was court-martialled and demoted for overstaying his page leave. When retired sustaining the working group touching Pilkem, he was killed by the isolated husk & was buried there.

Works
Songs of the Fields (1915) Previous Songs (1918)