'Frank O’Connor'
(born Michael Francis O'Connor O'Donovan)

Born:	September 17, 1903 Cork City, Ireland
Died:	March 10, 1966 Dublin, Ireland
Occupation:	Short story writer, playwright
Nationality:	Irish
Influences:	Anton Chekhov
Influenced:	Colm Toibin, Julian Barnes

Frank O’Connor (born Michael Francis O'Connor O'Donovan) (September 17, 1903 – March 10, 1966) was an Irish author of over 150 works, who was best known for his short stories and books of memoirs. Born an only child in Cork, Ireland, to Minnie O'Connor and Michael O'Donovan, his early life was marked by his father's alcoholism, indebtness and ill-treatment of his mother. September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Ireland. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , , Statistics Province: Munster County: Area: 37. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Ireland. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Leinster County: Dáil Éireann: Dublin Central, Dublin North Central, Dublin North East, Dublin North West, Dublin South Central, Dublin South East European Parliament: Dublin Dialling Code: 01, +353 1 Postal District(s): D1-24, D6W Area: 114. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... This article is in need of attention. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Was an incredibly annoying horrible Russian who noboby liked and everyone ditched all the time. ... Colm T n (b. ... Barnes as Francophile and Francophone in Bernard Pivots Double je (France 2, March 2005) Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester) is a contemporary English writer whose novels and short stories have been seen as examples of postmodernism in literature. ... Ayn Rand (IPA: , February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Russian: ), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher,[1] best known for developing Objectivism and for writing the novels We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and the novella Anthem. ... Frank OConnor (born Charles Francis OConnor on September 22, 1897 in Lorain, Ohio- November 9, 1979) was an American actor, probably most known for his marriage to the philosopher and writer Ayn Rand. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Cosette Dwyer is an amazing author. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , , Statistics Province: Munster County: Area: 37. ...

He has recounted the early years of his life in one of his best books An Only Child, a memoir not published until 1961 but which has the immediacy of a precocious diary. His childhood was shaped in part by his saintly mother, who supplied much of the family's income because his father was unable to keep steady employment due to his drunkenness. As a literary genre, a memoir (from the Latin memoria, meaning memory) forms a subclass of autobiography, although it is an older form of writing. ...

In 1918 he joined the First Brigade of the Irish Republican Army in its resistance to British rule. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and took the Anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War which followed. He worked in a small propaganda unit in Cork City. He was subsequently among the twelve thousand anti-Treaty Irish Republicans who were interned by the nascent Irish Free State forces, O'Connor's imprisonment being in Gormanstown camp between 1922 and 1923. Following the war, the polyglot O'Connor took various positions including that of Irish teacher and librarian. This article is about the historical army of the self-proclaimed Irish Republic (1919–1922) which fought in the Irish War of Independence 1919–21, and the Irish Civil War 1922–23. ... Signature page of the Anglo-Irish Treaty The Anglo-Irish Treaty, officially called the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was a treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom and representatives of the extra-judicial Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence. ... The Irish Civil War (June 28, 1922 – May 24, 1923) was a conflict between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 6, 1921, which established the Irish Free State, precursor of todays Republic of Ireland. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Territory of the Irish Free State Capital Dublin Language(s) Irish, English Government Constitutional monarchy Monarch  - 1922–1936 George V  - 1936–1936 George VI President of the Executive Council  - 1922–1932 W.T. Cosgrave  - 1932–1937 Eamon de Valera Legislature Oireachtas  - Upper house Seanad Éireann  - Lower house Dáil Éireann...

He was perhaps Ireland's most complete man of letters, best known for his varied and comprehensive short stories but also for his work as a noble literary critic, essayist, travel writer, translator and biographer.

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From the 1930s to the 1960s he was a prolific writer of short stories, poems, plays, and novellas. His work as an Irish teacher complemented his numerous translations into English of Irish poetry, including his initially banned translation of Cúirt an Mheán Oíche. Many of O'Connor's writings were based on his own life experiences — his character Larry Delaney in particular. He had a stroke while teaching at Stanford University in 1961, and later died from a heart attack in Dublin, Ireland on March 10, 1966. He was buried in Deansgrange cemetery on March 12, 1966. Brian Merriman (1749 – July 27, 1805) was an Irish language poet and teacher. ... Stroke is the clinical designation for a rapidly developing loss of brain function due to an interruption in the blood supply to all or part of the brain. ... Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ... Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), more commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ... This article is about the city in Ireland. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Deansgrange Cross from the Bank of Ireland car park Deansgrange (Gráinseach an Déin in Irish) is a suburban area of South Dublin, centered around a crossroads, midway between Dun Laoghaire and Foxrock. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...

See also

• List of people on stamps of Ireland

This is a list of people on the postage stamps of the Republic of Ireland, including the years when they appeared on a stamp. ...

External links

• Biography
• Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
• Beyond Appearances
• Interview with his wife
• Online O'Connor fan page
• The Paris Review Interview
• Dublin Quarterly article on O'Connor's work
• Irish Writers Online page
• Frank O'Connor at the IMDB

Works

• Guests of the Nation
• My Oedipus Complex
• The First Confession
• An Only Child
• The Bridal Night
• The Luceys
• The Long Road to Ummera
• The Big Fellow (biography of Michael Collins)
• The Drunkard

and others collected in: O'Connor's Collected Stories, edited by Richard Ellmann (1981) This short story-related article is a stub. ... The Big Fellow is a 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader, Michael Collins, by Frank OConnor. ... Michael Collins is the name of: Michael Collins (Irish leader), the Irish patriot and revolutionary of the 20th century Michael Collins (Limerick politician), a modern-day Irish politician Michael Collins (astronaut), the American astronaut Michael Collins (footballer), an Irish footballer currently playing for Huddersfield Town Michael P. Collins, a Canadian...