Máirtín Ó Cadhain
| Máirtín Ó Cadhain | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1905 An Spidéal, County Galway, Ireland |
| Died | 18 October 1970 (aged 65) Dublin, Ireland |
| Pen name | Aonghus Óg Breallianmaitharsatuanógcadhanmaolpote D. Ó Gallchobhair Do na Fíréin Micil Ó Moingmheara M.Ó.C |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, journalist, school teacher |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Genre | Fiction, politics, linguistics, experimental prose |
| Subject | Irish Republicanism, modern Irish prose |
| Literary movement | Modernism, social radicalism |
| Notable works | Cré na Cille, An Braon Broghach, Athnuachan |
| Spouse | Máirín Ní Rodaigh |
Máirtín Ó Cadhain ([ˈmɑːrtʲiːnʲ oː ˈkainʲ]; 1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his 1949 work Cré na Cille, Ó Cadhain played a key role in bringing literary modernism to contemporary Irish language literature. Politically, he was an Irish nationalist and socialist, promoting the Athghabháil na hÉireann ("Re-Conquest of Ireland"), through Gaelic culture. He was a member of the Irish Republican Army with Brendan Behan during the Emergency.
Born in Connemara, he became a schoolteacher but was dismissed due to his IRA membership. In the 1930s he served as an IRA recruiting officer, enlisting fellow writer Brendan Behan. In the nineteen thirties, he participated in the land campaign of the native speakers, which led to the establishment of the Ráth Cairn neo-Gaeltacht in County Meath. Subsequently, he was arrested and interned during the Emergency years on the Curragh Camp in County Kildare, due to his continued involvement in the violent activities of the Irish Republican Army.
Ó Cadhain's politics were a nationalist mix of Marxism and social radicalism tempered with a rhetorical anti-clericalism. In his writings concerning the future of the Irish language he was however practical about the position of the Church as a social and societal institution, craving rather for a wholehearted commitment to the language cause even among Catholic churchmen. It was his view that, as the Church was there anyway, it would be better if it were more willing to address the Faithful in the national idiom.
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