Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Máirtín Ó Cadhain | |
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| Born | 20 January 1906 Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland |
| Died | 18 October 1970 (aged 64) Dublin, Ireland |
| Resting place | Mount Jerome Cemetery |
| Pen name | Aonghus Óg Breallianmaitharsatuanógcadhanmaolpote D. Ó Gallchobhair Do na Fíréin Micil Ó Moingmheara M.Ó.C |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, journalist, school teacher |
| Language | Irish (Connacht Irish) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Period | 1932–1970 |
| Genre | Fiction, politics, linguistics, experimental prose |
| Subject | Irish Republicanism, modern Irish prose |
| Literary movement | Modernism, social radicalism |
| Notable works | Cré na Cille An Braon Broghach Athnuachan |
| Spouse | Máirín Ní Rodaigh |
| Relatives | Seán Ó Cadhain (father) Bríd Nic Conaola (mother) |
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Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈmˠaːɾˠtʲiːnʲ oː ˈkəinʲ]; 20 January 1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his 1949 novel Cré na Cille, Ó Cadhain played a key role in reintroducing literary modernism into modern literature in Irish, where it had been dormant since the 1916 execution of Patrick Pearse. Politically, Ó Cadhain was an Irish republican and anti-clerical Marxist, who promoted the Athghabháil na hÉireann ("Re-Conquest of Ireland"), (meaning both decolonization and re-Gaelicisation). Ó Cadhain was also a member of the post-Civil War Irish Republican Army and was interned by the Irish Army in the Curragh Camp with Brendan Behan and many other IRA members during the Emergency.