Michael Farrell Irish Writer - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Michael Farrell (1899 – 1962) was an Irish writer and broadcaster remembered for his posthumous novel Thy Tears Might Cease.
He was born in Carlow town to a prosperous Catholic shopkeeper, and educated at Knockbeg College and Blackrock College.
He spent time in Mountjoy Prison during the Irish War of Independence and left Trinity College Dublin without graduating.
He worked for Radio Éireann and as a journalist.
In 1930 he married businesswoman Frances Cautley Baker, divorced daughter of painter Frances Baker, with whom she ran a shop in Blackrock, Dublin selling Irish crafts.
The couple settled in Kilmacanogue.
In 1934 Farrell wrote, produced, and directed the silent film Some Say Chance, notable as the screen debut of Maureen O'Hara; Frances did set design and location scouting.
Farrell's magnum opus, Thy Tears Might Cease, is a novel set in the Irish revolutionary period.
Although the first draft was completed in 1937, it was published only posthumously in 1963, after editing by Monk Gibbon.
He contributed as "Gulliver" to The Bell.
Latterly he worked mainly in his wife's business.

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