Padraic o conaire biography of barack
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Sean Phádraic:
Pádraic Ó Conaire.
Courtesy of Tom Kenny.
Postcard of the Conaire Monument, Eyre Square, c. 1940s.
Courtesy of Brendan McGowan.
The statue of Padraic O’Conaire which is currently situated in the Galway City Museum, is a limestone carving of the author depicted in a reflective pose sitting on a traditional hand built wall like that of any wall found in a Connemara field of yesteryear.
Pádraic was born on February 28th 1882, the son of a publican, on new dock street in the heart of Galway’s dockland. Orphaned by the age of eleven, he and his brothers ended up moving to their father’s family home with their grandmother in Garaffin, Ros Muc, which gave them somewhat privileged access to middle class culture. This is where O’Conaire became interested Gaelic and the Irish speaking locals.
Padraic was educated at Blackrock boarding school where he met fellow class-mate Éamon de Valera. At the age of eighteen O’Conaire le
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There were a number of pamphlets published at the height of the Irish War of Independence that simultaneously point to the marked social strife of this period whilst also promoting a harmonious cross-class vision of an Irish people united in shared pursuit of national liberation. A representative example is the 1921 discussion of The Labour Problem published by the Sinn Féin-allied Cumann Léigheachtaí an Phobhail [Republican Lecture Group]. Though seeking to present an image of aloofness from petty ideological squabbles, the pamphlet’s clerical author, S. O’Ceileachar, did claim that strikes were the product of unions’ “selfish” demands for higher wages. O’Ceileachar also openly stated that “Labour… is like a virulent foreign element in the social system” and “whatever else we are, capitalist or worker or neither, we are all Irishmen interested beyond anything else in the welfare of our common country, and as an Irishman speaking to Irishmen I put it that these industrial confli