What is recorded here
Rann na Feirste in County Donegal gave birth to Séamus Ó Grianna on 17 November 1889, placing a future writer inside a household already crowded with poets and storytellers. The bay may have sounded like music before he ever held a pen, shaping the rhythm he would later carry into novels and public life.
Why this person is known: Irish writer (1889–1969)
- Birthplace
- Rann na Feirste
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