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Richard Power (1928, Dublin - 12 February 1970, Bray) was an Irish novelist and script-writer. Early lifePower was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1928. EducationPower entered the Civil Service in 1945. Power had an English degree from Trinity College Dublin. Power studied Irish in the Aran Islands. CareerIn 1958, Power's career began in teaching. From 1958 to 1960, Power taught at State University in Iowa.[1] Power's Irish-language novel Ull i mBarr an Ghéagáin (1959) won the Gaelic Book Club Award. After his death it was published in an English translation by his brother Victor Power as Apple on the Treetop (1980). In 1964 his novel The Land of Youth was published. Power wrote one-act plays, Saoirse (Abbey 5 November 1955), and An Oidhreacht (Abbey 17 March 1958). He also wrote scripts for the Irish broadcaster RTE. Power's most notable novel was The Hungry Grass (1969), which covered in close detail the last days of a village priest, Fr Tom Conroy.[2] His novel The Mohair Boys was unfinished at his death in Bray in 1970. Works
Also: ‘Poems translated from the Irish,' Poetry Ireland, 19 (October 1952), pp.7-8; ‘Peasants: A Story,' The Bell, XVIII, 7 (Dec. 1952), pp.424-30; ‘An Outpost of Rome,’ The Dubliner, Vol. 3, 1 (Spring 1964), pp.14-26. See also extract from The Mohair Boys [unfinished novel] in The Irish Press (27 February 1971) Water Wisdom (short public service film, directed by Power) (Department of Local Government, 1962) References1. ^http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/p/Power_R2/life.htm {{authority control}}2. ^http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-hungry-grass-by-richard-power-review-last-days-of-a-doomed-everyman-1.2785946 3 : 1928 births|1970 deaths|Irish novelists |
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