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Frank O’Connor (1903-66)
Life
[pseudonym of Michael O’Donovan; occasional pseud. “Ben Mayo”]; b. 17 Sept. 1903, at 84 Douglas St., Cork; ‘an only child’ and ‘a mother’s boy’, son of Minnie O’Connor, a household servant, who was raised in an orphanage and later worked for the Barry family in Cork, forming strong attachments to the dg.Examples of author biographyAlice, and to Mr. Barry (who may have been in love with her); m. ‘Big Mick’, a Corkman serving in Munster Fusiliers, often away with the British Army, and given to alcoholic bouts and domestic violence; born during one of his father’s absences; he and his mother ‘never happier’ than when he was away; a grandmother was a native Irish speaker; family moves to more squalid part of the city with the return of his father; ed. St. Patrick’s Boys National School (CBS), and taught by Daniel Corkery on his arrival as a teacher in 1912; moves to North Monastery (CBS), 1913-1916; a |