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Frank O’Connor (born '''Michael Francis O'Connor O'Donovan''') ( September 17 , 1903 - March 10 , 1966 ) was an Irish Author of over 150 works, who was best known for his short stories and books of memoirs. Born an only child in Cork , Ireland , to Minnie O'Connor and Michael O'Donovan, his early life was marked by his father's alcoholism, indebtness and ill-treatment of his mother. In 1918 he joined the First Brigade of the Irish Republican Army in its resistance to British rule. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and took the Anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War which followed. He was subsequently among the twelve thousand anti-Treaty Irish Republicans who were interned by the nascent Irish Free State forces, O'Connor's imprisonment being in Gormanstown camp between 1922 and 1923. Following the war, the polyglot O'Connor took various positions including that of Irish teacher and librarian. From the 1930s to the 1960s he was a prolific writer of short stories, poems, plays, and novellas. His work as an Irish teacher complemented his numerous translations into English of Irish poetry, including his initially banned translation of Cúirt An Mheán Oíche . Many of O'Connor's writings were based on his own life experiences — his character Larry Delaney in particular. He had a stroke while teaching at Stanford University in 1961 , and later died in Dublin, Ireland on March 10 , 1966 . He was buried in Deansgrange cemetery on March 12 , 1966 . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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and others collected in: ''O'Connor's Collected Stories'', edited by Richard Ellmann (1981) |
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