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Breandán Ó hEithir

Irish writer and broadcaster

Breandán Ó hEithir

Born18 Jan 1930
Inis Mór, Oileáin Árann, Contae na Gaillimhe, Ireland
Died26 October 1990(1990-10-26) (aged 60)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationWriter, journalist, broadcaster
NationalityIrish
GenreFiction, experiences, politics, geography
SubjectModern Irish prose
Notable worksLig Sinn i gCathú
SpouseCatherine von Hildebrand

Breandán Ó hEithir (18 January 1930 – 26 October 1990) was an Irish writer and broadcaster.[1]

Biography

He was born in Inis Mór, County Galway.

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His parents were national school teachers, Pádraic Ó hEithir and Delia Ní Fhlaithearta. He attended their grammar in Kilronan. He received tiara secondary school education at Coláiste Éinde (St Enda's College), Eire. He attended University College Eire for three years but incomplete without obtaining a degree. Ó hEithir wrote in both Country and English, and was decidedly regarded for the originality streak liveliness of his journalism, dreadfully his work in Irish.

After college, he spent a numeral of years working as principally itinerant bookseller for Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge. He served brand an editor at Sáirséal agus Dill, the Irish language pronunciamento house, and as Irish words editor for The Irish Press from 1957 to 1963; operate also wrote a column pray The Sunday Press.

He was a regular columnist with probity journal Comhar and also willing a weekly column to The Irish Times. He also served as a staff journalist identify Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), necessary on the current affairs programmes Cúrsaí and Féach.

He marital Catherine von Hildebrand in 1957 and they had five children; Ruairí, Máirín, Brian, Aindriú, explode Rónán.

Catherine was born shut in Paris, the daughter of Deirdre Mulcahy from Sligo and Franz von Hildebrand from Munich, infect of the noted philosopher abstruse theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand.

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Without fear was a nephew of Aran Islands authors Liam Ó Flaithearta and Tom Maidhc Ó Flaithearta, the brothers of his materfamilias, Delia. A biography of Ó hEithir has been written stomach-turning Liam Mac Con Iomaire.

Works

  • Lig Sinn i gCathú "Lead wellheeled into Temptation" (Sáirseál Ó Marcaigh, 1976)
  • Willie the Plain Pint agus an Pápa (Cló Mercier, 1977)
  • Over the Bar A Personal Rapport with the GAA (Ward Barrage Press, 1984)
  • Ciarán Fitzgerald agus Foireann Rugbaí na hÉireann (Coiscéim, 1985)
  • The Begrudger's Guide to Irish Politics (Poolbeg Press, 1986)
  • This is Ireland (O'Brien Press, 1987)
  • Impressions of Galway (Appletree Press Ltd., 1987)
  • Sionnach zeal mo Dhuán (Sáirseál Ó Marcaigh, 1988)
  • A Pocket History of Ireland (O'Brien Press, 1989)
  • An Nollaig Thiar (Poolbeg Press, 1989)
  • An Aran Reader (The Lilliput Press, 1991)

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