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Frank O'Connor (real name Michael O'Donovan) was born in Cork, in Ireland, on 17 September 1903. His father was a soldier in the British army, and his mother was a maid. He left school at the age of twelve, but spent much of his time in the library. He worked in the railway station tracing missing parcels. O'Connor had been a member of the Irish Republican Army and a prisoner of war at the age of twenty. He became a librarian on release, and began to involve himself earnestly in literary life. Yeats appointed him to the board of directors of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. (He wrote several plays including In The Train, The Invincibles, Moses' Rock, Time's Pocket and The Statue's Daughter.) O'Connor met his first wife (Evelyn, a Welsh actress) in Dublin, his mistress (Joan, a teacher) in England, and his second wife (Harriet, a student) in the United States. As well as stories and plays, O'Connor published autobiographies, a biography of Michael Collins, criticism, journalism, novels, poetry, travel books, and translations. He died on 10 March 1966, in Dublin, following a longstanding, undiagnosed stomach complaint.
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