Nationality Irish Education University College Dublin | Children Brian | |
Born 29 September 1893
Dublin, Ireland ( 1893-09-29 ) Occupation Writer, teacher, civil servant, journalist Alma mater University College Dublin Genre Drama, fiction, poetry, journalism Spouse Kathleen Patricia Cruise O'Brien Died 21 March 1939, New Malden, United Kingdom Books Asses in Clover, The Bird Cage: A Mystery N, King Goshawk and the B, The Return of Cuchulai | ||
Eimar Ultan O'Duffy (29 September 1893 – 21 March 1935) was born in Dublin and educated at Belvedere College in Dublin, Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and at University College Dublin. He and Bulmer Hobson caused disaster to the plans for the 1916 Easter Rising when they told Eoin MacNeill that the Rising was planned for the next week; MacNeill, nominal head of the Irish Volunteers, reacted by sending messengers around the country to call off the manoeuvres which were the cover for the Rising, and advertising in newspapers to cancel them. O'Duffy and Hobson went to the North.
Publications
O'Duffy was a prolific writer. His The Wasted Island, published in 1919 by Martin Lester Publication in Dublin and republished in 1920 by Dodd, Mead and Company in New York City, is his best known book; it is a Roman à clef about the Easter Rising and the men who made it, with thinly-disguised and slanted portraits of the leaders. Its point-of-view protagonist, Bernard Lascelles, is based on O'Duffy, and its hero, the attractive and loveable Felim O'Dwyer, on Thomas MacDonagh.