Look Back to Look Forward Biography He befriended the likes of

He befriended the likes of Grace Plunkett (widow of Joseph Mary Plunkett)

Dorinda Outram examines the relationship between the standard continental models of natural history and the Irish experience

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Look Back to Look Forward Biography He befriended the likes ofWhile Frank OConnor was known primarily as one of Irelands finest short story writers, he was also an accomplished translator. In the long line of Irish writers given to translating poems in Irish into poems written in English a tradition stretching back at least as far as Jonathan Swift he stands out above all the rest. Between the mid 1920s and the mid 1960s, OConnor published 121 translations that give voice to the full range of this centuries old