Michael Farrell

Farrell, Michael (1899-1962), Novelist. Born in Carlow, he studied medicine at UCD but spent some time in prison during the Anglo-Irish War for possession of illegal documents. He went to the Belgian Congo, returning to Ireland in the early 1930s, abandoning medical studies for broadcasting. He became the amateur drama correspondent for The Bell. He is remembered for a novel, Thy Tears Might Cease (1963), a long work which attained mythic status in Dublin literary circles during composition and was edited by Monk Gibbon after his death.

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Michael Farrell may refer to:

• Michael Farrell (activist) (born 1944), Northern Irish civil rights activist
• Mike Farrell (born 1939), actor
• Michael Farrell (cricketer) (born 1968), Australian cricketer
• Mike Farrell (ice hockey) (born 1978), retired American ice hockey defenseman
• Mike Farrell (speedway rider) (born 1955), Australian speedway rider
• Michael Farrell (musician), keyboardist and songwriter
• Michael Farrell (poet) (born 1965), Australian poet
• Michael Farrell (powerlifter), Australian Paralympian

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