Seumas O'Kelly
Seumas O'Kelly (1881 – 14 November 1918) was an Irish journalist, fiction writer, and playwright.[1]
Born in
Michael O'Kelly, his more militant brother, took over at the Leader in 1912, but was interned after the April 1916 Easter Rising. Seumas returned to the Leader for a brief stint. There is a plaque in his honour outside the Leader's offices which reads "Seumas O'Kelly – a gentle revolutionary". He wrote numerous plays, short stories, and novels. His short story "The Weaver's Grave" is among the most acclaimed of Irish short stories. A radio version of this, adapted and produced by Mícheál Ó hAodha, won the Prix Italia
for Radio Drama in 1961.
O'Kelly was a friend of the Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith, founder of both the political party Sinn Féin and its newspaper Nationality. He died prematurely of a heart attack following a raid on the paper's headquarters at Harcourt St by British security forces.[2]
Prose fiction
These three books are available in digital copies at HathiTrust as of November 2018.
- Waysiders: Stories of Connacht (Dublin: The Talbot Press and London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917) – 10 stories
- The Lady of Deerpark (London: Methuen, 1917)
- The Golden Barque and The Weaver's Grave (Talbot, 1919) – 2 novellas
- The Leprechaun of Killmeen (Dublin: Martin Lester, 1920) – novella
- Irish Short Stories by Seamus O' Kelly (Cork: The Mercier Press, 2024)
References
- ^ Garrity, Davin A. 44 Irish Short Stories. Seventeenth Edition. Devin-Adair. Co. 1988. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
- ^ O'Kelly at Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco). Retrieved 2008-03-24. Archived 2007-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Works by Seumas O'Kelly at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Seumas O'Kelly at Internet Archive
- Works by Seumas O'Kelly at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Seumas O'Kelly Papers, 1904–1975 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center
- Seumas O'Kelly at Library of Congress, with 11 library catalogue records (previous page of browse report, as 'O'Kelly, Seumas, 1881–1918')
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