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Frank O’Connor (1903 – 1966)

• -Born in 1903 as Michael Francis O’Donovan
• -Renowned in the literary world for his work as a novelist, short story writer, travel writer, biographer, poet, dramatist & translator.
• -Raised in Cork by Minnie (Née O’Connor) & Michael O’Donovan.
• -His memoirs “An Only Child” (1961) & “My Father’s Son” (1968) recount his life & difficult childhood in Cork City, describing his struggle growing up with a stern & alcoholic father figure.
• -He fondly describes his mother, who often earned the household’s income, as a figure he admired and looked up to.
• -O’Connor volunteered as a teenager in the Irish Republican Army & fought in the Irish War of Independence against the British Army.
• -After the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December of 1921, he chose the anti-treaty side of the Irish Civil War in 1922.
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