Pádraic Ó Conaire

Pádraic Ó Conaire
BornPatrick Joseph Conroy
20 February 1882
Galway, Ireland
Died6 October 1928(1928-10-06) (aged 46)
Dublin, Ireland
Pen nameNone
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer, essayist
  • journalist
  • school teacher
LanguageIrish
Genre
  • Fiction
  • satire
  • folklore
Notable works
SpouseMolly Ní Mhanais

Pádraic Ó Conaire (28 February 1882 6 October 1928) was an Irish writer and journalist whose production was primarily in the Irish language. In his lifetime he wrote 26 books, 473 stories, 237 essays and 6 plays. His acclaimed novel Deoraíocht has been described by Angela Bourke as 'the earliest example of modernist fiction in Irish'.