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Frank O’Connor
Frank O’Connor (born Michael Francis O’Donovan; 17 September 1903 - 10 March 1966) was an Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs. The ...visualizza altroFrank O’Connor (born Michael Francis O’Donovan; 17 September 1903 - 10 March 1966) was an Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs. The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award was named in his honour.
Born and raised in Cork, Ireland, the only child of Minnie (née O’Connor) and Michael O’Donovan, he attended St. Patrick’s School on Gardiner’s Hill and North Monastery CBS. O’Connor’s early life was marked by his father’s alcoholism, debt, and ill-treatment of his mother.
In 1918 O’Connor joined the First Brigade of the Irish Republican Army and served in combat during the Irish War of Independence. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and joined the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War, working in a small propaganda unit in Cork City. He was one of 12,000 Anti-Treaty combatants who were interned by the government of the new Irish Free State. Between 1922-1923 O’Connor was imprisoned in Cork City Gaol and in Gormanston, County Meath.
Following his release, O’Connor took various positions including that of teacher of Irish, theatre director, and librarian. He began to move in literary circles and came to know most of the well-known Irish writers of the day, including Yeats, Lennox Robinson, F. R. Higgins and Augusta Gregory. In 1935, O’Connor became a member of the board of directors, and later director (1937-1939), of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, founded by W. B. Yeats and other members of the Irish National Theatre Society. In 1937, he became managing director of the Abbey.
In 1950, he accepted invitations to teach in the U.S., where many of his short stories had been published in The New Yorker and won great acclaim.
He had a stroke while teaching at Stanford University in 1961, and later died from a heart attack in Dublin, Ireland in 1966, aged 62.visualizza meno
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