Ussher, Arland

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Percy Arland Ussher or Percival Arland Ussher (1899 September 9 - 1980 December 24) was an Anglo-Irish academic, essayist and translator. Born in Battersea, London, he studied at Cambridge University. In 1926 he published a translation of The Midnight Court by the Irish Gaelic-language poet, Brian Merriman. He published The Face and Mind of Ireland (1949) and Three Great Irishmen (1952), a comparitive study of Shaw, Yeats, and Joyce. He moved to County Waterford to manage the family farm before moving to Dublin in 1953.

From the description of Arland Ussher correspondence, 1921-1959. (Southern Illinois University). WorldCat record id: 212036430

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correspondedWith Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974 person
correspondedWith Clarke, Austin, 1896-1974 person
associatedWith Daiken, Leslie. person
correspondedWith Envoy (Dublin) corporateBody
correspondedWith Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1878-1957 person
associatedWith Gregory, Alyse, 1884-1967. person
correspondedWith Grene, Jack person
correspondedWith Hone, Joseph M. (Joseph Maunsell), 1882-1959 person
correspondedWith John, Augustus, 1878-1961 person
associatedWith Joyce, James, 1882-1941. person
correspondedWith Magee, William Kirkpatrick person
associatedWith Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. person
correspondedWith Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897-1988 person
correspondedWith Wilson, Robert N. D. person
associatedWith Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. person
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Birth 1899

Death 1980

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