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mother and was bitterly resentful of his father. In his memoirs, he recalled his childhood as "those terrible years", and admitted that he had never been able to forgive his father for his abuse of himself and his mother. When his mother was seventy, O'Connor was horrified to learn from his own doctor that she had suffered for years from chronic
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wall that seemed too high and too doubtful to try and too difficult to permit their voyage to continue, they took off their hats and tossed them over the wall—and then they had no choice but to follow them. This nation has tossed its cap over the wall of space and we have no choice but to follow it."
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O'Connor's early life was marked by his father's alcoholism, debt, and ill-treatment of his mother. His childhood was strongly shaped by his mother, who supplied much of the family's income by cleaning houses, his father being unable to keep steady employment due to alcoholism. O'Connor adored his
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at the conclusion of his speech at the dedication of the Aerospace Medical Health Center in San Antonio on 21 November 1963: "Frank O'Connor, the Irish writer, tells in one of his books how, as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the countryside, and when they came to an orchard
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Since 2000, The Munster Literature Centre in O'Connor's hometown of Cork has run a festival dedicated to the short story form in O'Connor's name. The longest established annual festival dedicated to the short story form in an English-speaking country, it regularly hosts readings, workshops and
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in Dublin, founded by Yeats and other members of the Irish National Theatre Society. In 1937, he became managing director of the Abbey. Following Yeats's death in 1939, O'Connor's long-standing conflict with other board members came to a head and he left the Abbey later that year.
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O'Connor was perhaps best known for his varied and comprehensive short stories but also for his work as a literary critic, essayist, travel writer, translator and biographer. He was also a novelist, poet and dramatist.
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O'Connor's career began in 1922 and accelerated with the appearance of poetry in translation, articles on early Irish poets, book reviews by stories and original poetry. Much of this material appeared in Æ's journal
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in which he reveals childhood details concerning his early life in County Cork. The Sullivan family in this short story, like his own boyhood family, is lacking a proper father figure.
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Following his release from Gormanston, O'Connor took various positions including that of teacher of Irish and theatre director. Thanks to his continuing connection with
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masterclasses for contemporary practitioners of the form, as well as celebrating the work of O'Connor and other local short fiction writers such as
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and won great acclaim. He spent much of the 1950s in the United States, although it was always his intention to return eventually to Ireland.
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In other stories, his character Larry Delaney, in particular, is reminiscent of events in O'Connor's own life. O'Connor's experiences in the
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The Kennedy Library, Boston, Mass., Speech of 21 November 1963, Dedication of Aerospace Medical Health Center, San Antonio, Texas.
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where he was held until just before Christmas. War is a major theme in most stories of O'Connor's first published collection,
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O'Connor continued his autobiography through his time with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, which ended in 1939, in his book,
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In 1950, he accepted invitations to teach in the United States, where many of his short stories had been published in
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Non-profit arts organisation The Munster Literature Centre – Frank O'Connor House, 84 Douglas Street, Cork, Ireland.
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In December 1928, he moved to Dublin to take up the position of librarian at the Pembroke District Library.
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in 1961, and he later died from a heart attack in Dublin, Ireland on 10 March 1966. He was buried in
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among others. It also has a tradition of encouraging younger writers at the start of their career,
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and chronicles the doomed friendship between the members of an I.R.A. unit and the two
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hostages whom they are guarding. The first film was a silent one, directed in 1934 by
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From the early 1930s following the publication of his first volume of short stories,
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Frank O'Connor's Collected Stories, Introduction, Knopf: New York, 1981. p. xii
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In 1935, O'Connor became a member of the board of directors of the
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which has the immediacy of a precocious diary. U.S. President
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This article is about the writer. For other people, see
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The Mirror in the Roadway: A Study of the Modern Novel
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A Short History of Irish Literature: A Backward Look
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