Maurice O'Sullivan
Maurice O'Sullivan ( Irish : Muiris Ó Súilleabháin ; born February 19, 1904 on Great Blasket Island ; died 1950 ) was an Irish-speaking Irish writer .
In his life story, published in 1933 under the title Fiche Blian ag Fás ( English under the title Twenty Years A-Growing ), one of the main works of Blasket literature , he reports with poetic freedom about childhood and youth on Great Blasket Island from the Blasket Islands in County Kerry , then the westernmost populated island in Europe. The first German edition was published in 1956 under the title Inselheimat by Manesse-Verlag in Zurich, a more recent one appeared under the title The sea is full of the most beautiful things in Göttingen near Lamuv (2000).
Works
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Fiche Blian ag Fás (Irish) (First ed.). Baile Átha Cliath (Dublin): Clólucht an Talbóidigh. 1933.
- Twenty Years A-Growing . Rendered from the original Irish by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson. With an Introductory Note by EM Forster. London Chatto & Windus, 1933.
- Vingt ans de jeunesse [Fiche Bliain ag Fás] (French). Translated (from English into French) Raymond Queneau . Paris : Gallimard 1934.
- Island home . Zurich 1956 ( Manesse Library of World Literature )
- The sea is full of the most beautiful things [Twenty Years A-Growing]. An Irish life story. After the first translation [from the English] by Elisabeth Aman, it was revised and revised by Karl-Klaus Rabe. Göttingen, Lamuv, 2000, ISBN 3-88977-568-3
See also
literature
- Dylan Thomas : A film script of Twenty years a-growing: from the story by Maurice O'Sullivan . Dent, 1964
Web links
- Stewart, Bruce: " Muiris O Súilleabháin (1904-50) ". Ricorso, 2010.
- oxfordreference.com
personal data | |
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SURNAME | O'Sullivan, Maurice |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ó Súilleabháin, Muiris (Irish) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1904 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Great Blasket Island |
DATE OF DEATH | 1950 |