biography
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O'Connor, Frank
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pseudonym of Michael Francis O'Donovan
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| male
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| lived:
| (1903–66)
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| biography:
| Short-story writer, novelist, and playwright, born in Cork, Co Cork, S Ireland. From a poor family, he worked as a railway clerk and a librarian, and was imprisoned briefly for his involvement with the IRA. A director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in the 1930s, he was a visiting professor at several universities in the USA, and became popular for his short stories published in The New Yorker (1945–61). His volumes include Guests of the Nation (1931), Crab Apple Jelly (1944), and Collected Stories (1981). He also wrote critical studies, and a biography of Michael Collins, The Big Fellow (1937). |
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