biography
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O Cadhain, Máirtín
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Eng Martin Kane
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pronunciation:
[oh kayn, mah(r)ti
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| male
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| lived:
| (1906–70)
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| biography:
| Gaelic novelist, born in Galway, W Ireland. A schoolteacher, he lost his job when he joined the Irish Republican Army in the 1930s as a recruiting officer. Interned during World War 2 in the Curragh Camp, Kildare, he published Irish short stories, followed in 1949 by his masterpiece, Cré na Cille, a ruthless social analysis of rural community ill-feeling, revealed by the conversations and monologues of the corpses in the local graveyard. An official translator of Irish parliamentary debates from 1949, he was fluent in eight languages. He became lecturer in modern Irish in Trinity College, Dublin (1956), then professor (1969). |
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