The final hour of Thursday’s Morning Focus saw us joined by Brendan McGowan, a graduate of both GMIT and the University of Ulster, a researcher, curator and writer.
He discussed his upcoming talk on famed writer Pádraic Ó Conaire and the Revolution. The talk will be part of a series of such events held by North Clare Historical Society at the Courthouse Gallery on Monday week (September 17th).
Pádraic Ó Conaire is revered for his journalistic work as well as his short stories, which he wrote exclusively in Irish leading to him being hailed as a champion of the language. While O’Conaire is typically associated with Galway, being born in Galway City and raised in Connemara, he actually boasts a strong Clare connection. All four of his sisters settled in Clare, while the man himself lived in Miltown Malbay for a time and campaigned for DeValera in East Clare.
O’Conaire is a point of major interest for McGowan. McGowan with help from fellow writer Diarmuid De Faoite published the first ever English translation of O’Conaire’s ‘Seacht mBua an Éirí Amach’ in celebration of the book’s 100th anniversary.
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