WRITER

Máirtín Ó Cadhain

1906 - 1970

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Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈmˠaːɾˠtʲiːnʲ oː ˈkəinʲ]; 20 January 1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his 1949 novel Cré na Cille, Ó Cadhain played a key role in reintroducing literary modernism into modern literature in Irish, where it had been dormant since the 1916 execution of Patrick Pearse. Politically, Ó Cadhain was an Irish republican and anti-clerical Marxist, who promoted the Athghabháil na hÉireann ("Re-Conquest of Ireland"), (meaning both decolonization and re-Gaelicisation). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Máirtín Ó Cadhain has received more than 110,678 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Máirtín Ó Cadhain is the 6,518th most popular writer (down from 5,693rd in 2019), the 361st most popular biography from Ireland (down from 314th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 20

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  • 2.56

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  • 3.35

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ranks 6,518 out of 7,302. Before him are Ransom Riggs, Kiera Cass, Sarah Winnemucca, Sidney Lee, Ralf Rothmann, and Deborah Ellis. After him are Charles Stross, Martin Österdahl, John Gribbin, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ellen Kushner, and Andrew Kevin Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ranks 429. Before him are Sue Carol, Einar Haugen, Albert Charles Smith, Donald Woods, S. I. Hayakawa, and William Bendix. After him are Jim Bausch, Esmond Knight, Richard van der Riet Woolley, Catherine Cookson, Barbara Jo Allen, and Bea Benaderet. Among people deceased in 1970, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ranks 256. Before him are Marjorie Rambeau, Charlie Ruggles, Preston Foster, Earl Hooker, Richard Hofstadter, and Richard Cushing. After him are Booker Ervin, William Daniels, William Beaudine, Patricia Ellis, Louis Fischer, and Rose McConnell Long.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ranks 361 out of 549. Before him are Lenny Abrahamson (1966), Orla Brady (1961), Robert Sheehan (1988), Geoffrey Keating (1569), Patrick Kavanagh (1904), and Marian Keyes (1963). After him are Desmond Connell (1926), Mairead McGuinness (1959), Henry John Stephen Smith (1826), Kerry Condon (1983), Shay Given (1976), and James Mason (1849).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ranks 51. Before him are Nahum Tate (1652), Roddy Doyle (1958), Frances Power Cobbe (1822), Terence MacSwiney (1879), Patrick Kavanagh (1904), and Marian Keyes (1963). After him are James Mason (1849), Thomas MacDonagh (1878), Emma Donoghue (1969), Padraic Colum (1881), Sally Rooney (1991), and Michael Davitt (1846).

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