Author O'kelly Seumas

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Seamus O'Kelly (c.1875 – 14 November, 1918) was an Irish author and playwright.[1] Born in Loughrea, Co. Galway, O'Kelly was educated locally and began his career as a journalist with the Cork newspaper, The Southern Star. He wrote numerous plays, short stories, and novels. His short story, The Weaver’s Grave, is among the most acclaimed of Irish short stories. A radio version of this, adapted and produced by Mícheál Ó hAodha, won the coveted Prix Italia for Radio Drama in 1961. A friend of Arthur Griffith, he worked with the Sinn Féin newspaper Nationality in 1916. He died prematurely of a heart attack following a raid at the paper’s headquartes at Harcourt St.[2]