Seumas O'Kelly

Seumas O'Kelly

Seamus O'Kelly (c.1875 – November 14, 1918) was an Irish author and playwright. [Garrity, Davin A. 44 Irish Short Stories. Seventeenth Edition. Devin-Adair. Co. 1988. Retrieved Mar. 24, 2007.]

Born in Loughrea, Co. Galway, O'Kelly was educated locally and began his career as a journalist with the Cork newspaper, "The Southern Star". He wrote numerous plays, short stories, and novels. His short story, "The Weaver’s Grave", is among the most acclaimed of Irish short stories. A friend of Arthur Griffith, he worked with the Sinn Féin newspaper "Nationality" in 1916. He died prematurely of a heart attack following a raid at the paper’s headquartes at Harcourt St. [ [http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/o/index.htm] O'Kelly at Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco). Retrieved Mar. 24, 2008.]

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