Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin

Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin / ˈdʲiːərmʷidʲ oː ˌsuːlʲəˈwɑːnʲ / (born July 29, 1932 in Na hAoraí on the Beara Peninsula ; † June 5, 1985 ) was an Irish writer .

Life

Ó Súilleabháin was born in County Cork on the west coast of Ireland in 1932 . He received his education, among other things, in the Coláiste Íosagáin (about "College of little Jesus") in Ballyvourney (also County Cork), which is in a Gaeltacht . He then completed at St. Patrick's College in Dublin district of Drumcondra training to primary school teachers. After graduating in 1951, he worked with hearing-impaired children in Dublin for several years. He worked in his hometown for two more years before he got a permanent position at the Christian Brothers School in Gorey , County Wexford . In 1954 he married Úna Ní Chléirigh, with whom he had five children.

He was close friends with the painter Paul Funge , founder of the Gorey Arts Center , and his house has always been known as a meeting place for artists and writers. As a young man, however, Ó Súilleabháin suffered from poor health and died in June 1985 at the age of 52.

Language and politics

Ó Súilleabháin came from a region of Ireland in which, on the one hand, the literary tradition is deeply rooted, and in which the majority of the inhabitants are, on the other hand, strongly nationalist - republican . In addition, the Irish of this region was still spoken by many older people in Ó Súilleabháin's youth, but was dying out. These three circumstances shaped both his life and his works. Local nationalists managed to arouse the boy's interest in language and politics. Five uncles alone had fought in the Irish War of Independence , and Diarmaid became an unconditional Republican throughout his life. He became an active member of Sinn Féin and was jailed in 1972 for speaking publicly about the activities of the Provisional IRA in the early 1970s. He was a member of the Sinn Féin board of directors and public relations director for the Republican Movement.

literature

Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin is now one of the most important and political Irish-speaking prose writers and playwrights. Outside Ireland, however, it is hardly known to this day and it was also rarely read in Ireland due to a lack of translations. In addition to novels , he also wrote dramas for his students and books for young people . So it was a youth novel that he was able to get published first, Súil le Muir ( German for "Hope for the Sea"). His first work for adults was then Dianmhuilte Dé (1964) ( Eng . About "God's merciless mills"), which is set on the Beara peninsula during the War of Independence. Other novels were Caoin Tú Féin (German about "Klage but even", 1967), An Uain Bheo (German about "The living lamb", 1968) and Maeldún (proper name, 1972). He also published the volume of short stories Muintir (German about "people", 1971). In the 1960s, some of his dramas were performed frequently, including Bior (German for "Pflock", 1965), Macalla (German for "Echo", 1966) and Ontos (1967). The novels Ciontach (dt. About "Guilty") and Aistear (dt. About "astray") were published in the year of his death in 1983 and posthumously among other things Lá Breá Gréine Buí (German about "A beautiful bright sunny day").

Works

Novels

• Súil le Muir (German for "Hope for the Sea")
• Dianmhuilte Dé (German for "God's merciless mills", 1964)
• To Uain Bheo (German about "The living lamb", 1968)
• Maeldún (proper name, 1972)
• Ciontach (German about "guilty", 1985)
• Aistear (German about "astray", 1985)
• Lá Breá Gréine Buí (German about "A beautiful bright sunny day", 1986)

stories

• Muintir (German about "people", 1971)

Dramas

• Bior (German about "Pflock", 1965)
• Macalla (German about "Echo", 1966)
• Ontos (1967)

Translations

• There are currently no translations into German.
• Urlacaim… (Engl. I Vomit… ), translated by the author, in: Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (Ed.): Rogha an Fhile , The Goldsmith Press , 1974, pp. 100-103.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on ainm.ie (Irish), accessed September 11, 2019