Life
1925- ; b. 6 Dec., Castleisland, Co. Kerry; ed. Castlemartyr College, Co. Cork, Castleisland; spent World War II as labourer in England; ed. UCC, grad. BA (1st Class), 1948; MA, 1949; took job as a PT teacher at Hastings, Essex, 1950; returned to Castleisland in the mid-1950s to worked as a butcher, teacher and bookie; contrib. to Radio Éireann and ed. The Taxpayer’s News, terminated by libel action in the mid-1960s; wrote political column in The Kerryman; moved to Dublin in the 1970s; contrib. immensely popular back-page sports column to Evening Press; his bust stands outside a public house in Westmoreland St., Dublin; issued A Harvest (2007), a collection of writings on writers, artists and sports people.
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Works
Trans., ‘Paidín Mháire’, in Padraic Ó Conaire (Poolbeg 1982) [15 short stories trans. by var. authors]; A Harvest (Dublin: Liberties Press 2007), 224pp.
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Criticism
There is a feature interview with Eileen Battersby in The Irish Times (1 & 2 Jan. 1997).
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