Pádraic Ó Conaire [SEP] date of birth
Pádraic Ó Conaire
Pádraic Ó Conaire (28 February 1882 – 6 October 1928) was an Irish writer and journalist whose production was primarily in the Irish language. In his lifetime he wrote 26 books, 473 stories, 237 essays and 6 plays. His acclaimed novel "Deoraíocht" has been described by Angela Bourke as 'the earliest example of modernist fiction in Irish'.
Life.
Ó Conaire was born in the Lobster Pot public house on the New Docks in Galway on 28 February 1882. His father was
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- 29 September – John Devoy, Fenian organiser, exiled to America (born 1842).
- 6 October – Pádraic Ó Conaire, journalist and writer (born 1882).
- 26 October – Michael McCarthy, nationalist anticlerical lawyer (died 1928 in Ireland).
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