Rudi Holzapfel

Rudolf Patrick (Rudi) Holzapfel (11 December 1938 in Paris, France – 6 February 2005 in Bonn, Germany) was an Irish poet and teacher.

Kelly's dance troupe after December 1933 performed at Paramount cinema [fr][1] (on the Boulevard des Capucines[2]) and later also expanded back to the Folies Bergère.

[2] The family relocated to America, living in California between 1946 and 1956, where Rudi Holzapfel graduated from Santa Barbara Catholic High School.

It was during these years that Holzapfel began to identify with Ireland and the cause of Irish nationalism; he has said he would like to be considered a true inheritor of the spiritual legacy of the Gaelic Bards.

He began a lifelong study and appreciation of James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849), who he describes as the greatest Irish poet before Yeats.