biography
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| lived:
| (1897–1984)
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| biography:
| Writer, born on Inishmore in the Aran Is, Co Galway, W Ireland. He studied at Rockwell College, Tipperary, and University College, Dublin, and fought in the British army during World War 1, and with the Republicans in the Irish Civil War. He went to London in 1922 to become a writer, and published his first novels, Thy Neighbour's Wife (1923) and The Black Soul (1924). The Informer (1925) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was a popular success. A leading figure of the Irish Renaissance, he has also published collections of short stories. |
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