biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1950)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Dublin, Ireland. An orphan in the Dublin slums, he found work as a solicitor's clerk. His first published work was a volume of poems, Insurrections (1909), followed by his first novel, The Charwoman's Daughter (1912). The Crock of Gold (1912), a prose fantasy, made him famous, and he became a full-time writer. His later volumes were Songs from the Clay (1914), The Demi-Gods (1914), Reincarnation (1917), and Deirdre (1923). |
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