Breandán Ó hEithir (18 January 1930 – 26 October 1990) was an Irish writer and broadcaster.
, ''The New York Times'', 25 October 1990.

Biography

He was born on the island of

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. His parents were national school teachers, Pádraic ÓhEithir and Delia NíFhlaithearta. He attended their school in Kilronan. He received his secondary school education at Coláiste Éinde (St Enda's College) in

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. He attended

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for three years but left without obtaining a degree. ÓhEithir wrote in both Irish and English, and was highly regarded for the originality and liveliness of his journalism, especially his work in Irish. After university, he spent a number of years working as an itinerant bookseller for . He served as an editor at , the

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publishing house, and as Irish language editor for ''

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'' newspaper from 1957 to 1963; he also wrote a column for ''

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''. He was a regular

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with the journal and also contributed a weekly column to ''

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''. He also served as a staff journalist with

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, working on the current affairs programmes and . He married Catherine vonHildebrand in 1957 and they had five children; Ruairí, Máirín, Brian, Aindriú, and Rónán. VonHildebrand was born in Paris, the daughter of Deirdre Mulcahy from Sligo and Franz vonHildebrand from Munich, son of the noted philosopher and theologian Dietrich vonHildebrand. He was a nephew of Aran Islands authors

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and Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty, the brothers of his mother, Delia. A biography of ÓhEithir has been written by

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Works

* ("Lead us into Temptation") ( Sáirseál Ó Marcaigh, 1976) * ''Willie the Plain Pint agus an Pápa'' (Cló Mercier, 1977) * ''

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A Personal Relationship with the GAA'' (Ward River Press, 1984) * (Coiscéim, 1985) * ''The Begrudger's Guide to Irish Politics'' (Poolbeg Press, 1986) * ''This is Ireland'' ( O'Brien Press, 1987) * ''Impressions of Galway'' (Appletree Press Ltd., 1987) * ( Sáirseál Ó Marcaigh, 1988) * ''A Pocket History of Ireland'' ( O'Brien Press, 1989) * (Poolbeg Press, 1989) * ''An Aran Reader'' (

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, 1991)

References

External links

Ó hEithir, Breandán biodata at Ainm.ie
accessed 18 July 2020.

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