Kennelly address: Mr Haughey's love of poetry and the arts was recalled by the poet Brendan Kennelly at the Requiem Mass.
"Charlie loved poetry. And I used to meet him now and again in different places to talk about it and to say a poem for him," he told the congregation.
"And sometimes he'd recite a poem too. He once recited a poem in Latin to me and it floored me altogether. And if he liked the poem that I said to him he always said, 'Ah, you boy ya,' and I waited for that commendation."
Kennelly said it was "a great pleasure and a great honour" to be in Donnycarney remembering Mr Haughey, who saw the arts as the "heartbeat of humanity". Mr Haughey often quoted Kavanagh's exhortation to youthful poets to "try to be more human. And that was basically his message to me and I think to all of us."
Mr Haughey was born in Castlebar and he liked Raifteirí, the blind poet from Mayo. Every spring, Raifteirí would travel through Mayo, searching for a place where he felt young.
"There's always that place in people. I think for Charlie it was Inishvickillane and Dingle and he just loved the place."
The former taoiseach was also a strong believer in encouragement and determination, Kennelly said. If you ever said a negative thing to Mr Haughey, "he'd clatter you, with his tongue that is. Because he was a real Dubliner. He was pure ... he was witty, he was quick. He was positive. He was determined and he wanted you to be determined," he said.
Kennelly recited the Yeats poem Politics, and Raglan Road by Kavanagh and Dublin Made Me by Donagh McDonagh. He finished his tribute with his own poem Begin Again.
"I'd love to dedicate it if I may to that great woman Maureen Haughey, and to all her family and to Father Eoghan for his lovely words this morning," he said.
