Mícheal Ó Súilleabháin (; 21 February 1917 – 4 November 2004) was an
Irish writer.
He wrote ''Where Mountainy Men Have Sown'', an account of the
Irish War of Independence
The Irish War of Independence (), also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (1919–1922), Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and Unite ...
in
County Cork
County Cork () is the largest and the southernmost Counties of Ireland, county of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, named after the city of Cork (city), Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster ...
.
This appears to be one of the sources for the film ''
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
"The Wind That Shakes the Barley" is an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce (1836–1883), a Limerick-born poet and professor of English literature. The song is written from the perspective of a doomed young Wexford rebel who is about to ...
''.
References
External links
on the book
Irish male non-fiction writers
1917 births
2004 deaths
20th-century Irish non-fiction writers
21st-century Irish non-fiction writers
Writers from County Kerry
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