Muiris o suilleabhain biography of abraham
Muiris o suilleabhain biography of abraham
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Muiris O Súilleabháin (1904-50)
Life
| b. 19 Feb. 1904, on Great Blasket, off W. Kerrry; raised in Dingle on death of mother at 6 months; attended local school in English before returning to the island and to Irish at 7 [1905-1911]; befriended by George Thomson, from Cambridge, 1923; joined Garda in Dublin, 1927; stationed at Indreabán [Inverin], in Connemara Gaeltacht; encouraged to write his classic Fiche Bliain ag Fás (1933) by George Thomson [aka Seoirse Mac Tomáis], lecturer in Greek at UCG, 1923-34; |
| posted at Garda station in An Ceathrú Rua at insistence of Earnest Bythe [Earnán de Blagh]; resisted linguistic interference of “An Seabhac”, the chief editor at An Gúm; his Fiche Bliain trans.
as Twenty Years A-Growing (London 1933) by Thomson and Moya Llewellyn Davies; left Guards, 1934, settled in Connemara, and drowned swimming, 25 June, shortly after rejoining the Guards; manuscript of reje |