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Criostoir OFloinn
Críostóir Ó Floinn (O'Flynn) from Limerick, Ireland, began to write poems, plays and stories at the age of ten, not realising then that he was afflicted for life with the incurable compulsion of cr...view moreCríostóir Ó Floinn (O'Flynn) from Limerick, Ireland, began to write poems, plays and stories at the age of ten, not realising then that he was afflicted for life with the incurable compulsion of creativity. He qualified as a teacher with teaching posts in Roscommon, Ennis, and in the Limerick area. In 1952, he married Rita Beegan and they moved unwillingly to Dublin where he had been offered a permanent teaching post. Apart from an abortive attempt in 1962 to return to Limerick – that exile has been permanent, and they now live near Killiney Hill in County Dublin. In 1960, hoping that a job concerned with writing would be more congenial than teaching, Críostóir took up a post with Bord Fáilte as a writer on cultural affairs, but found that it was case of “out of the frying pan...” and returned to teaching after a year. He has been a full-time writer since retiring from teaching and being elected a member of Aosdána, the State-sponsored body of writers, artists and composers who are considered to have made a significant contribution to the arts in Ireland. Críostóir also worked freelance in journalism and broadcasting.Críostóir has also written many plays for which he has won many awards and accolades including Na Cimí. Mise Raifteiri an File, Romance of an Idiot (later retitled Land of the Living) The Order of Melchizedek, Cóta Bán Chríost, and Oileán Tearmainn.Many of his short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies in Ireland, Britain, the US, Germany and France. Three collections, two in English, one in Irish, are part of his published work.Críostóir has published twelve collections of poetry including Ó Fhás go hAois and Centenary. A translation of the three initial cantos of Dante’s Divina Commedia won the Oireachtas award for translation and was launched at the Italian Institute in Dublin.Críostóir has published an autobiographical trilogy in English, There is an Isle, Consplawkus, A Writer’s Life. Recent publications are Lóchrann Dóchais, a trilogy on the three French saints, Thérèse of Lisieux, Bernadette of Lourdes, Joan of Arc (Columba Books); Old Church Street, a Limerick memoir, and Meeting Mrs Zebedee: A Personal Guide to Faith. His next publication will be Remember Limerick: Four Essays (Was there a Pogrom in Limerick?; Angela’s Ashes Analysed; The Origins of the Limerick; The Treaty Stone of Limerick).view less