Máirtín Ó Direáin

Question 1

He was born on Inis Mór in the Arann Islands in 1910

Answer 1

Rugadh Máirtín Ó Direáin ar Inis Mór sna hOileáin Árann sa bhliain 1910

Question 2

He left the island to work in the Post Office in Galway in 1928

Answer 2

D’fhág sé an t-oileáin chun dul ag obair in Oifig an Phoist i nGaillimh sa bhliain 1928

Question 3

He went to work in Dublin after that and spent the rest of his life there

Answer 3

Chuaigh sé ag obair i mBaile Átha Cliath ina dhiadh sin agus chaith sé an chuid eile dá shaol ansin

Question 4

He saw the island as a place like heaven because he relied on his childhood memories

Answer 4

D’fhéach sé ar an oileán mar áit cosúil le neamh mar bhí sé ag brath ar chuimhní a óige

Question 5

He published White Candles, Other Poems and Our Bloody Era

Answer 5

D’fhoilsigh sé Coinnle Geala (1942), Dánta Eile (1957) agus Ár Ré Dhearóil (1963)

Question 6

He had an interest in drama

Answer 6

Bhí an-suim aige sa drámaíocht

Question 7

He died in Dublin in 1988

Answer 7

Fuair sé bás i mBaile Átha Claith i 1988