biography
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O'Faolain, Sean
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Eng John Francis Whelan
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pronunciation:
[ohfaylen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1900–91)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at the National University of Ireland, and at Harvard, and lectured in America before returning to Ireland to teach. He attracted attention with a novel, A Nest of Simple Folk (1933), and produced an edition of translations from Gaelic - The Silver Branch (1938). He never quite repeated his success with later novels, but wrote many biographies, including Daniel O'Connell (1938), De Valera (1939), and The Great O'Neill (1942), this last being a life of the 2nd Earl of Tyrone. |
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