Ulick O’Connor
Writer, poet, historian and critic Ulick O’Connor has died at the age of 91.
Writer and critic Ulick O’Connor dies aged 91 (RTÈ)
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Ulick O’Connor
Writer, poet, historian and critic Ulick O’Connor has died at the age of 91.
Writer and critic Ulick O’Connor dies aged 91 (RTÈ)
RIP.
RIP indeed. Highly entertaining company, even though you could never get a word in yourself you didn’t mind. Outrageously self-important but it was impossible to begrudge him for it.
He was a learned character. Graduated in Law but found literature and literary biography more interesting than legal loopholes. I enjoyed Celtic Dawn and Oliver St. John Gogarty most. R.I.P.
He was the author of a very good biography of Brendan Behan.
He went to the same school as Tommy Tiernan for a while, Garbally College, Ballinasloe, where is was unpopular with the boys but a favourite of the clerics – which might explain why he later airbrushed it out of his life story.
Pugilist in body & mind