Maghnas Mac Cumhaill

Mac Cumhaill, Maghnas (pseudonym Fionn ‘Mac Cumhaill’) (1885-1965), novelist; born in the Rosses, Co. Donegal, and educated for a period at UCD, after which he emigrated to America, where he was a professional boxer. He drew on traditional story-telling for both theme and style in six novels, beginning with ‘Sé Dia an Fear is Fearr (1928), and of which Na Rosa go Bráthach (1939), a rambling tale set in 19th-cent. Ireland, is the best. Maicín (1946) and a further volume, Gura Slán lem' Óige (1974), are autobiographical.