Seumas O'Kelly (1881 – 14 November 1918) was an Irish journalist, fiction writer, and playwright. Born in Loughrea,

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, O'Kelly was educated locally and began his career as a journalist with the

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newspaper ''Southern Star''. He moved from '' The Southern Star'' to the '' Leinster Leader'' in Naas where he remained as Editor until he went to work in 1916 for ''Nationality'', the Sinn Féin party newspaper. Michael O'Kelly more militant brother took over at the ''Leader'' in 1912, but was interned after the April 1916

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. Seumas returned to the ''Leader'' for a brief stint. There is a plaque in his honour outside the ''Leaders offices which reads "Seumas O'Kelly – a gentle revolutionary". He wrote numerous plays, short stories, and novels. His short story "The Weaver's Grave" is among the most acclaimed of Irish short stories. A radio version of this, adapted and produced by Mícheál Ó hAodha, won the Prix Italia for Radio Drama in 1961. O'Kelly was a friend of the Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith, founder of both the political party Sinn Féin and its newspaper ''Nationality''. He died prematurely of a heart attack following a raid at the paper's headquarters at Harcourt St.O'Kelly at Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)
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Prose fiction

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as of November 2018. * ''Waysiders: Stories of Connacht'' (Dublin: The Talbot Press and London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917) – 10 stories * ''The Lady of Deerpark'' (London: Methuen, 1917) * ''The Golden Barque and The Weaver's Grave'' (Talbot, 1919) – 2 novellas * ''The Leprechaun of Killmeen'' (Dublin: Martin Lester, 1920) – novella

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Seumas O'Kelly Papers, 1904–1975
at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center * (previous page of browse report, as 'O'Kelly, Seumas, 1881–1918') 1881 births 1918 deaths Irish male dramatists and playwrights Irish journalists Irish male short story writers People from County Galway People from Loughrea Irish male novelists 20th-century Irish novelists 20th-century Irish male writers 20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Irish short story writers 20th-century journalists {{Ireland-writer-stub