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Daniel Corkery (Irish Republican)
Daniel Corkery (20 September 1883 – 23 April 1961) was an Irish politician and Commandant in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence. Revolutionary period From Macroom, County Cork, Corkery was served short terms of imprisonment in 1916 and 1917 for Irish Volunteers activity. During the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), he took part in barracks attacks and operations against British forces. He one of the main IRA officers during the Coolavokig ambush in February 1921.. At the 1921 general election he was elected unopposed to the Second Dáil as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West constituency. An anti-Treaty member from January 1922, he did not take his seat in the Third Dáil. Corkery was arrested by National forces on 4 November 1922 and interned in Cork County Jail, Cork, Hare Park internment camp and Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. He states that he was granted parole in June 1923 in conne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Corkery (author)
Daniel Corkery ( ga, Dónall Ó Corcora; 14 February 1878 – 31 December 1964) was an Irish politician, writer and academic. He is known as the author of ''The Hidden Ireland'', a 1924 study of the poetry of eighteenth-century Irish language poets in Munster. Academic career Corkery was born in the city of Cork and educated at Presentation Brothers College before training as a teacher at St Patrick's College, Dublin. He taught at Saint Patrick’s School in Cork, but resigned from there in 1921 when he was refused the headmastership. Among his students there were writer Frank O'Connor and sculptor Seamus Murphy. After leaving St. Patrick's, Corkery taught art for the local technical education committee, before becoming inspector of Irish in 1925 and Professor of English at University College Cork in 1930. Among his students in UCC were Seán Ó Faoláin and Seán Ó Tuama. Corkery was often a controversial figure in academia for his 'nativist' views on Irish literature. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |