O'Connor, Frank
O'Connor, Frank , pseudonym of Michael Francis O'Donovan ( 1903 – 66 ),born in Cork, the son of a soldier; his work includes two novels, a life of Michael Collins ( 1937 ), translations from the Irish, literary criticism, and dramatizations, but he is best known for his short stories, many of them much revised and rewritten. Collections include Bones of Contention ( 1936 ), Crab Apple Jelly ( 1944 ), Traveller's Samples ( 1951 ), and Domestic Relations ( 1957 ). Realistic and closely observed, they offer a full portrait of the middle and lower classes of Ireland, and of the ‘warm dim odorous feckless evasive southern quality’ of his native Cork, which as a young man he had shocked by his productions of plays by Ibsen and Chekhov , and by his support of Joyce (whose art, however, he was later to conclude, was too removed from life). He also wrote two volumes of autobiography,...
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