Michael P. O’Connor

Life
1896-1967, b. Loughrea, Co. Galway; served in Irish Reg. World War I; ed. UCD, MD 1925; interned by Japanese in Sarawak 1941-45; novels and historical materials about collapse of Singapore in collab. with G. P. Willis. IF2 DIW

 

References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt.II] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists Dreamer Awake (Dublin: Talbot 1946), and Vile Repose (London: Benn 1950), a sequel. Boyhood in Cathedral Town (?Loughrea), suicide of father leads to work in Borneo; Borneo during the Japanese occupation.

Belfast Public Library holds O’Connor, M. P., The More Fool I (1954); Vile Repose (1950).

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