Education
He was a native of Ballinasloe, County Galway and was educated at Garbally College.
He was a native of Ballinasloe, County Galway and was educated at Garbally College.
His entered Saint Patrick’s Teacher Training College, Drumcondra in 1939, graduating with a Diploma in Education in 1945. He was awarded an Master of Arts, by University College Dublin in 1947. Ó Tuairisc held a commission in the Irish Army during the Emergency from 1939 to 1945.
He was a teacher in Finglas, Company
Dublin from 1940 to 1969. From 1962 to 1965, he was editor of Feasta, the journal of Conradh na Gaeilge.
The following fived years were an unsettled period of limited productivity, changing residence and jobs, and, ultimately, serious depression. They lived in the lock house at the Maganey Lock on the Barrow River that Ó Tuairisc had bought near Carlow town.
Lux Aeterna". Kelly survived him on his death in 1982.
Aosdána]
Eoghan Ó Tuairisc was an inaugural member of Aosdána, when it was founded in 1981, and the first of its members to die.