Padraic o conaire biography of michael
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Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928)
Life
| (1882-1928) [anglice Patrick Joseph Conroy; ‘Sean-Pádraic’] b.
20th Feb., Galway; son of publican-proprietor of the the Lobster Pot, New Docks, Galway, where he was born; orphaned at death of his mother Kate McDonagh, 1893 [aetat. Padraic o conaire biography of michael11]; raised by English-speaking uncle in Gairfean, Rosc Muc, Connemara, with two younger brothers; learned Irish at local National Schools; received a scholarship to Scoil Éanna/St. Enda’s [with headmaster Patrick Pearse]; ed. Rockwell and Blackrock College, and went to sea; entered the British Civil Service in London, 1899; joined Gaelic League there shortly after; |
| m. Molly Ni Mhanais, 1903, ,with whom four children [Eileen, Patrick, Kathleen & Mary - the youngest of whom died of diptheria at 10]; he left his job and family behind in London in 1914 to become a travelling story-teller and the author of four hundred short stories, both for adults and childr
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