Tuesday the 13th
Frank O'Connor Books
Guests of the Nation , My Oedipus Complex ,' First Confession , An Only Child , The Bridal Night , The Luceys , The Long Road to Ummera , The Big Fellow (biography of Michael Collins)
Frank O'Connor Top Links
Fiction - Frank O'Connor
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Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) was born Michael O'Donovan in Cork, Ireland. He later took the name Frank O'Connor as a pen name. His family's poverty forced him to leave school at age fourteen. O'Connor served in the Irish Republican Army during the civil war in Ireland that erupted after the 1922 treaty with Great Britain that resulted in the partitioning of Ireland into two states. The defeat of the IRA and the division of Ireland greatly disappointed O'Connor, feelings which are reflected in his first collection of stories Guests of the Nation (1931).
Irish Writers Online - Frank O'Connor
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Frank O’Connor (pen name of Michael O’Donovan) was born in Cork City on September 17, 1903. There is a poignant description of his childhood in the first volume of his autobiography An Only Child. He published two novels, The Saint and Mary Kate (Macmillan, London 1932,1936/New York 1932 - Blackstaff, Belfast 1990); and Dutch Interior (Macmillan, London 1940: Knopf, NY 1940, Blackstaff, Belfast 1990).
Frank O'Connor papers
Site http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/oconnor/oconnor.htm
The Frank O'Connor papers include all the literary manuscripts and related materials (excluding printed books) left to Harriet Sheehy by Michael O'Donovan The papers occupy 23 manuscript boxes, 10 linear feet, and include holograph journals and notebooks, corrected and uncorrected typescripts, carbon copies, tearsheets, galleys, and occasional correspondence related to the publication of Frank O'Connor's literary works. The major part of the collection is the short story material, O'Connor's chief genre, but this is supplemented by non-fiction including literary criticism, lecture notes, scripts of radio broadcasts, autobiographical material, with reminiscences of his work with the Abbey Theatre, and some sixty-three articles for newspapers and magazines.
Frank O'Connor - Penguin Author
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Frank O'Connor was the pseudonym of Michael O'Donovan who was born at Cork in 1903. Largely self-educated, he began to prepare a collected edition of his works at the age of twelve and later worked as a librarian, translator and journalist. When quite young he learned to speak Irish and saturated himself in Gaelic poetry, music and legend. When he was interned by the Free State Government he took the opportunity to learn several languages, but it was in Irish that he wrote a prize-winning study of Turgenev on his relase. 'A.E.' began to publish his poems, stories and translations in the Irish Statesman. Meanwhile a local clergyman remarked of him, when he produced plays by Ibsen and Chekhov in Cork, that: 'Mike the moke would go down to posterity at the head of the pagan Dublin muses.' Frank O'Connor lived in Dublin and had an American wife, two sons and two daughters. He published Guests of the Nation, his first book, in 1931, and then followed over thirty volumes, largely of short stories, in addition to plays. Frank O'Connor died in 1966.
Frank O'Connor Essay Competition
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Perhaps Ireland's most complete man of letters, best known for his varied and comprehensive short stories but also a notable literary critic, essayist, travel writer, translator, and biographer, Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) is the author of such justly famous works as "Guests of the Nation" (a haunting narrative of friendship and war and one of the seminal short stories of our century), "My Oedipus Complex" and "First Confession" (two great comic tales), and numerous other fine stories, including "The Bridal Night," "The Luceys," and "The Long Road to Ummera." O'Connor published works of fiction and non-fiction continuously from the 1930s to the 1960s, and a large volume of his Collected Stories (ISBN 0-394-51602-8), edited by Richard Ellmann, appeared in 1981. Most recently his biography of Michael Collins, The Big Fellow, has been published by Picador (ISBN 0-312-18293-7 [hc]). O'Connor has been the subject of an increasing amount of scholarly interest. Much of this work is summed up and extended in the recently published book Frank O'Connor: New Perspectives (ISBN 0-933951-79-5), edited by Robert C. Evans and Richard Harp and available from Locust Hill Press (P.O. Box 260, West Cornwall, CT 06796; 860-672-0069).
Frank O'Connor 1903 - 1966
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(1903-1966) Irish writer. Pseudonym for Michael O'Donovan. Frank O'Connor wrote 150 short stories, novels, plays, poetry, and two autobiographies before his death. At least 70 of O'Connor's short stories related to Irish family life and a majority of them related to his own life and experiences.
Frank O'Connor - Fiction
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Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) was born Michael O'Donovan in Cork, Ireland. He later took the name Frank O'Connor as a pen name. His family's poverty forced him to leave school at age fourteen. O'Connor served in the Irish Republican Army during the civil war in Ireland that erupted after the 1922 treaty with Great Britain that resulted in the partitioning of Ireland into two states. The defeat of the IRA and the division of Ireland greatly disappointed O'Connor, feelings which are reflected in his first collection of stories Guests of the Nation (1931).
Frank O'Connor - Beyond Apperances
Site http://www.usna.edu/EnglishDept/ilv/oconnor.htm
Frank O'Connor the poet, translator, short story writer, and teacher is possibly the most underrated talents to have emerged from Ireland. O'Connor is able to capture the essence of the Irish culture from his own experiences, and his immersion into the language, history, mythology, and changing culture. Through the writing and character of Frank O'Connor the passion, heritage, and internal struggle of the Irish culture is better ascertained and appreciated.
Frank O'Connor - International Short Story Award
Site http://www.munsterlit.ie/FOC/FOC%20Award%20Info.htm
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award is an annual award of 35,000 euros, as such it is currently the world's richest prize for the short story form. The award is in memory of the late Frank O'Connor, one of the world's most renowned short story writers. The award is presented in O'Connor's hometown of Cork, Ireland. It is organised by the Munster Literature Centre and funded by Cork City Council. The award goes to the author of the book judged to be the best collection of stories published in English for the first time anywhere in the world in the twelve months between October of one year and September of the next. If a translated book wins, the purse is shared equally between the author and translator.
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925