Máirtín Ó Cadhain

Máirtín Ó Cadhain (; 20 January 1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his 1949 novel , ÓCadhain played a key role in reintroducing literary modernism into modern literature in Irish, where it had been dormant since the 1916 execution of Patrick Pearse. Politically, ÓCadhain was an Irish republican and anti-clerical Marxist, who promoted the ("Re-Conquest of Ireland"), (meaning both decolonization and re-Gaelicisation). ÓCadhain was also a member of the post-Civil War Irish Republican Army and was interned by the Irish Army in the Curragh Camp with Brendan Behan and many other IRA members during the Emergency. Provided by Wikipedia