Seán Ó Tuama, poet, dramatist, and critic, grew up in Gurranebraher and studied at University College Cork. He later became Professor of Modern Irish Literature at UCC, as well as a visiting professor at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Toronto. His poetry is collected in Faoileán na Beatha (1962, An Chlóchomar Tta.) and Death in the Land of Youth: New and Selected Poems of Seán Ó Tuama (1997, Cork University Press). He also wrote five plays, including Gunna Cam agus Slabhra Óir. Dráma Véarsaíochta Thrí Ghníomh (1978 Sáirséal agus Dill). His most notable academic works are An Grá in Amhráin na nDaoine (1960, An Chlóchomhar Tta., 1960), An Grá i bhFilíocht na nUaisle (1988) and An Duanaire - Poems of the Dispossessed, in collaboration Seán Ó Tuama, poet, dramatist, and critic, grew up in Gurranebraher and studied at University College Cork. He later became Professor of Modern Irish Literature at UCC, as well as a visiting professor at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Toronto. His poetry is collected in Faoileán na Beatha (1962, An Chlóchomar Tta.) and Death in the Land of Youth: New and Selected Poems of Seán Ó Tuama (1997, Cork University Press). He also wrote five plays, including Gunna Cam agus Slabhra Óir. Dráma Véarsaíochta Thrí Ghníomh (1978 Sáirséal agus Dill). His most notable academic works are An Grá in Amhráin na nDaoine (1960, An Chlóchomhar Tta., 1960), An Grá i bhFilíocht na nUaisle (1988) and An Duanaire - Poems of the Dispossessed, in collaboration with Thomas Kinsella (1981). He also published a book of literary essays and an anthology of 20th century Irish poetry.
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