About Frank O'Connor
Frank O'Connor was an Irish author and translator. He wrote poetry, dramatic works, memoirs, journalistic columns and features on aspects of Irish culture and history, criticism, long and short fiction, biography, and travel books. He is most widely known for his more than 150 short stories and for his memoirs. The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was named in his honour, as is the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship. In 1918 O'Connor joined the First Brigade of the Irish Republican Army and served in combat during the Irish War of Independence. War is a major theme in most stories of O'Connor's first published collection, Guests of the Nation, 1931. O'Connor worked first in Sligo and later under Geoffrey Phibbs in Wicklow. In 1935, O'Connor became a member of the board of directors of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, founded by Yeats and other members of the Irish National Theatre Society.
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