Profiling Máirtín Ó Cadhain in the television documentary ‘Máirtiín Ó Cadhain sa gCnocán Glas’.
Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 1970) was an Irish language writer best known for his novel 'Cré na Cille' (Graveyard Clay).
In this extract Máirtín Ó Cadhain sums up his life and describes how he was sacked from his job as a national school teacher in Carn Mór, Claregalway for his association with the IRA (Irish Republican Army), and spent five years in an internment camp. He expresses the hope that in the future people will read his work.
The documentary is in Irish with English subtitles.
‘Máirtiín Ó Cadhain sa gCnocán Glas’ was broadcast on 13 February 1967.
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