biography
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| (1878–1964)
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| biography:
| Irish cultural leader, born in Cork, Co Cork, S Ireland. He studied at University College, Cork, and was professor of English there (1931–47). He published a collection of short stories, A Munster Twilight (1917), and a novel, The Threshold of Quiet (1917). He profoundly influenced new Irish writers, and his love of the Irish language was the basis of his literary evangelism, as revealed in The Fortunes of the Irish Language (1954). He was elected to the Irish Senate in 1951. |
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