His parents, Michael Clifford and Mary Anne Sigerson, were from County Kerry, and they returned there in the following year, to Cahersiveen, in the Iveragh Peninsula.
Aged 19, after finishing secondary school, he joined the Civil Service, and worked for several years in unemployment exchanges in Cork and Kerry.
[2] Sigerson Clifford died in Glenageary, County Dublin, on 1 January 1985,[3] aged 71, and was interred in Kilnavarnogue Cemetery in his native Cahersiveen, with a graveside oration by his fellow Kerry author and playwright, John B Keane.
[citation needed] Clifford wrote a number of poems and plays, including The Great Pacificator, which was staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1947.
The poem recalls the life of his boyhood friends starting from when they were young children through to the Black and Tan period, and up to the civil war.