Reference code
IE IE/DDA IE/DDA/AB8/XXIII./8/352
Title
1 March 1957
Date(s)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
4pp 1 item
Name of creator
(28/07/1895- 07/04/1973)
Name of creator
(1500-2022)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
Typed draft of an article/speech titled ‘The Writer’ by Peadar O’Donnell. Would come near defining a writer when they reveal people “behaving and misbehaving towards one another.” The writer needs freedom and in Ireland he enjoys less than any other country. Irish writers are shut in and silenced by their job and “conditioned to bark if they want to prosper as emigrants to America.” Perhaps Ireland’s greatest cultural crime has been her waste of the poet Patrick Kavanagh.