Fionn Mac Mumhaill
Life 1885-1965 [pseud. of Magnus Mac Comhgnaill]; b. Co. Donegal, native speaker; worker on ranches in America; settled in Dublin and worked as clerk; An Meadhon-Leabhar (1922), Irish language textbook; novels, Tusa, a Mhainín (Derry 1922); Sé an Fear is Fearr (Dublin 1928); Na Rosa go Bráthach (1939); Gleann na Coilleadh Uaignighe (1946); Lascaire na gCiagh-Fholt Fionn (1955); An Sean-Fhód (1969); also Maicín (1946), autobiographical stories, and Gura Slán le mÓige (1974), autobiography.
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