Maurice Walsh

Maurice Walsh ( * April 21, 1879 in Ballydonoghue in Listowel, County Kerry, † 18 February in Blackrock, Dublin suburb 1964) was an Irish writer.

Life

Walsh was the eldest son of the farmer John Walsh and his wife Elizabeth Buckley. The primary school attended Walsh in Lisselton, later moving to the St. Michael 's College, Listowel.

After successful completion Walsh got a job at the Civil Service. Effective July 2, 1901, he began as Assistant Revenue Officer to work in Scotland. Since his childhood literature interested, he now began to write. Were his first attempts dismissed as inexperienced, he was able to successfully debut in 1908 in the Irish Emerald with two short stories.

On August 8, 1908, he married in Dufftown ( Banffshire ) in Scotland, Caroline Begg. Walsh was nationalistic, body and soul, and when the Irish Free State was proclaimed on December 2, 1922, he went with his family to Ireland.

1933 Walsh was on his day job and only devoted himself to his literary work. He was for some time a member of the PEN Association of Ireland and in 1938 he was appointed there also president. Its most important task as such was to represent his home on a writers conference in the United States.

Shortly before his 85th birthday died Maurice Walsh on February 18, 1964 in Blackrock ( Dublin) and found next to his wife († 1941) on the Esker Cemetery, Lucan ( County South Dublin ) his final resting place. The Irish President Éamon de Valera was present at the funeral and also gave a short speech.

Reception

As a nationalist Walsh was his home politically connected and in his novels, these views were also a recurrent theme. That he was there also a lifelong of this landscape and the people, is also no secret in his works. One of his protagonist, Hugh Forbes, is described as an upright fighter against Black and Tans ( Royal Irish Constabulary ) and can not deny autobiographical.

Works (selection)

  • Green rushes. Chambers 1950 ( Nachdr d ed London 1935).
  • Son of Apple. Short stories. Chambers, London, 1947.
  • Son of a tinker and other tales. A pretelling of a translation by Catriona Macleod of an old Irish folk -tale collected in Kerry by Sheumas O'Duilearga. Chambers, Edinburgh, 1947 ( Nachdr d ed London 1951).
  • The honest fisherman and other stories. Chambers, London, 1958 ( Nachdr d ed London 1953).
  • The smart fellow. Seven stories. Chambers, London 1964.
  • Come back, my love. In: Devin A. Garrity (ed. ): 44 Irish Short Stories. An anthology of Irish short story fiction from Yeats to Frank O'Connor. 9th edition. Devin - Adair Books, Old Greenwich, Conn. 1982, ISBN 0-517-09530-0.
  • The key above the door. Chambers, Edinburgh 1979, ISBN 0-550-20411-3. ( Nachdr d ed London 1926). The key to the gate. Novel. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1954.
  • And no quarter. Being to chronicle of the wars of Montrose as seen by Martin Somers. Chambers, Edinburgh 1980, ISBN 0-550-20418-0.
  • The news from Ireland. Foreign correspondents and the Irish Revolution. Tauris, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-84511-714-6.
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