Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MARY CONNOR...
...Only Child, by Frank O'Connor. Born in a Cork slum, the author writes with cheerful clarity of his pitiable boyhood and his fey, gallant mother...
...freight clerk, he spoke that night in his self-taught Gaelic to a Gaelic League meeting on the character of Goethe. In short, a hopeless case. If ever a man became a writer because there was nothing else in the world he could do, it was Frank O'Connor...
...most acceptable to the nonpartisan. The Corkite republicans had their generals (milkmen and cobblers in private life), their officers' mess, and even a cannon with homemade shells. But they had no front line. By the time they established this military necessity, it was Sunday, recalls O'Connor, and "after his longing for Mass, an Irishman's strongest characteristic is his longing for home and Mother, and anyone who knew his Ireland would have guessed that on that fine summer morning our whole front was being pierced in a dozen places by nostalgic enemy soldiers, alone...
Frank O'Connor's early life of Michael O'Donovan belongs with the best of its kind. It is that of a man who has made his life important to others simply because he has written about it with art. It is also a specimen of that mythical work for which the U.S. public is said to hanker-the tragedy with a happy ending...