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Life
b. near Moycullen Co. Galway, son of small farmer, ed. locally; joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913; reporter on the Galway Express in 1918, invented own Irish shorthand; joined The Irish Independent in Dublin, in 1922, reporting Irish politics; m. Ellen Wara, 1931, two daughters; Irish Academy of Letters Award, 1938; Irish Editor for Irish Independent, 1945; friendship with Máirtín Ó Cadhain from 1932, urging him leave the IRA to concentrate on writing;
his collections of of short stories incl. An Geall a Briseadh (Dublin 1938); Cruithneacht agus Ceannabháin (Dublin 1940); Or na h-Aithinne (1949); also Dán (Dublin 1973); Gan Baisteadh (1972), set of autobiographical recollections; As An nGéibheann (1972), containing letters written to him by Mairtín Ó Cadhain during the latter’s his internment, 1939-44; Rogha Scéalta [Selected Stories] was issued by Cló Iar-Chonnachta in 2011). DIW
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Works
Cumhacht na Cunniúna (1936); Cumhacht na Cinneamhna (Dublin: Oifig an tSolathair 1940), 156pp.; Cruithneacht agus Ceannabhán (1940); Ór na hAitinne (1949); Gan Baisteadh (1972); As An nGéibheann (1972); Dán (1973). See also Rogha Scéalta (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2011),. 233pp.
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Criticism
See Aisling ní Dhonnchadha, An Gearrscéal sa Ghaeilge (1981).
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