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Máirtín Ó Cadhain

1906 - 1970

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Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈmˠaːɾˠtʲiːnʲ oː ˈkəinʲ]; 20 January 1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his 1949 novel Cré na Cille, Ó Cadhain played a key role in reintroducing literary modernism into modern literature in Irish, where it had been dormant since the 1916 execution of Patrick Pearse. Politically, Ó Cadhain was an Irish republican and anti-clerical Marxist, who promoted the Athghabháil na hÉireann ("Re-Conquest of Ireland"), (meaning both decolonization and re-Gaelicisation). Ó Cadhain was also a member of the post-Civil War Irish Republican Army and was interned by the Irish Army in the Curragh Camp with Brendan Behan and many other IRA members during the Emergency. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Máirtín Ó Cadhain is the 5,983rd most popular writer (up from 6,519th in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 361st in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Irish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ranks 5,983 out of 7,302. Before him are Šatrijos Ragana, Kurt Marti, Monika Maron, Liao Yiwu, John Perry Barlow, and Roberto Orci. After him are Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dan Houser, Antonia Fraser, Guus Kuijer, Leon Kruczkowski, and Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ranks 389. Before him are Arseny Golovko, Hugh Gaitskell, René Fernández, Raúl Anganuzzi, G. Ledyard Stebbins, and Helene Costello. After him are Giovanni D'Anzi, Albert Heremans, Greta Nissen, Sue Carol, James Corson, and Alfredo Pitto. Among people deceased in 1970, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ranks 241. Before him are Otis Spann, Grethe Weiser, Stefan Andres, Paul Sturzenegger, Edward Everett Horton, and Earl Eby. After him are Georgi Naydenov, Georg de Laval, Anita Louise, Jaipal Singh Munda, John T. Scopes, and Teofilo Spasojević.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ranks 300 out of 549. Before him are Charlie McGettigan (1950), Róisín Murphy (1973), Tony Dunne (1941), Liam O'Flaherty (1896), Evanna Lynch (1991), and Albert Reynolds (1932). After him are Frank O'Farrell (1927), Peter Sutherland (1946), Anne Buttimer (1938), Robert McClure (1807), Harry Clarke (1889), and William Desmond Taylor (1872).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ranks 43. Before him are Sydney, Lady Morgan (1776), Eoin Colfer (1965), Nahum Tate (1652), John Connolly (1968), Michael Scott (1959), and Liam O'Flaherty (1896). After him are Frances Power Cobbe (1822), Colum McCann (1965), Roddy Doyle (1958), Sally Rooney (1991), Frank Harris (1856), and Cecelia Ahern (1981).

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