Background
The endpiece from Dánta do pháistí (Poems for Children), entitled "Subh Mhilis" ("Sweet Jam"), a poignant poem dedicated to his mother (subtitle: "Ceann do Mhama"), is one of his best-known works:.
The endpiece from Dánta do pháistí (Poems for Children), entitled "Subh Mhilis" ("Sweet Jam"), a poignant poem dedicated to his mother (subtitle: "Ceann do Mhama"), is one of his best-known works:.
Following a primary degree from Queen"s University, Belfast, he did historical research under Eoin MacNeill at University College, Dublin. He spent periods as editor of the journals An Iris and Comhar. Two of his novels, Tonn Tuile and Máire Nic Artáin, dealt with marital breakdown - the first set during The Emergency and the latter in the religiously divided communities of Belfast during the First World War.
The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, Welch, R. (ed), The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996.
A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers, Anne Brady & Brian Cleeve (eds), The Lilliput Press, 1985. Dictionary of Ulster Biography, in Newmann, K. (comp), The Queen"s University of Belfast, 1993.
Séamus Ó Néill bibliography from James Hardiman Library, UCG.