He also spent time living in Dublin and attend Saint Columba's National School by North Strand Church.
[3][4] He spent the largest part of his adult life in Dublin, in a house he had built beside the River Dodder in Rathfarnham.
His health was poor, and though his friends were inclined to regard him as a hypochondriac, his frequent predictions that he would die young proved to be accurate.
He was generally acknowledged to be a fine poet, but was less successful in his Abbey Theatre work: Frank O'Connor said unkindly that Higgins could not direct a children's poetry recitation.
[9] He was a popular and convivial man: even Frank O'Connor, who came to regard him with deep suspicion, admitted that he was a delightful person to know.