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Lebor Gabála Érenn (literally "The Book of Ireland's Taking"; Modern Irish spelling: Leabhar Gabhála Éireann, known in English as The Book of Invasions) is a collection of poems and prose narratives in the Irish language intended to be a history of Ireland and the Irish from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages. There are a number ...
The ruins of the house in which Muiris Ó Súilleabháin grew up on the Great Blasket Island.. Muiris Ó Súilleabháin (Irish: [ˈmˠɪɾʲɪʃ oː sˠuːl̠ʲəˈwaːnʲ]; 19 February 1904 – 25 June 1950), anglicised as Maurice O'Sullivan, was an Irish author famous for his Irish language memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket Island and in Dingle, County Kerry, off the western coast of ...
Mark O'Connell (born 23 June 1979) is an Irish author and journalist. His debut book, To Be a Machine, was published in 2017, followed by Notes from an Apocalypse in 2020. . His third book, A Thread of Violence, was published in 2
He went to London in the 50s and then on to Sweden, where he started writing. He then moved to America and soon after to Australia, where he settled in Melbourne for some years. While there, he wrote The Countrywoman (1962), The Stubborn Season (1962), and 'Stravanga (1963). He returned to Dublin in 1972 where he remained until he died on 11 ...
Following in the footsteps of his elder brothers Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt, Alphie had his own memoir A Long Stone's Throw published in 2008. [2] The book was well received.
Edmund Lenihan (born 1950), known as Eddie Lenihan, is an Irish author, storyteller, lecturer and broadcaster. [1] He is one of the few practising seanchaithe (traditional Irish lore-keepers and tale-spinners) remaining in Ireland.
Tomás Ó Criomhthain (pronounced [t̪ˠʊˈmˠaːsˠ oː ˈkɾʲɪhənʲ]; [1] commonly anglicised as Tomás O'Crohan [2] and occasionally as Thomas O'Crohan; bap. 29 April 1855 – 7 March 1937) was a native of the Irish-speaking Great Blasket Island near the coast of the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland.
The various stories concern the life of an Anglo-Irish former British Army officer recently appointed as a resident magistrate (R.M.) in Ireland, which at that stage was still wholly a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, some years before its partition into the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland) and Northern ...