Boston College Collection of Frank O'Connor

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Boston College Collection of Frank O'Connor

1949-1978

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/MS2003-022

Correspondence, publications, and manuscripts by Irish author and translator Frank O'Connor.

3 linear feet (3 containers)

eng, Latn

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7353610

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O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966

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Frank O'Connor was born Michael Francis O'Donovan on September 17, 1903 in Cork city to Mary "Minnie" O'Donovan (née O'Connor) and Michael O'Donovan. Active on the Republican side in the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War, O'Connor was interned in Gormanston. After this experience, he turned against republicanism and political violence generally. Following his release from Gormanston, O'Connor worked as a librarian in Sligo, Cork, and Dublin until 1938. Beginning in the mid-1920s, O'C...