Eimar O'Duffy

Eimar Ultan O'Duffy
Born(1893-09-29)29 September 1893[1]
Dublin, Ireland
Died21 March 1939(1939-03-21) (aged 45)
New Malden, Surrey[1]
OccupationWriter, teacher, civil servant, journalist
NationalityIrish
Alma materUniversity College Dublin
GenreDrama, fiction, poetry, journalism
SpouseKathleen Patricia Cruise O'Brien[2]
ChildrenBrian[2]

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.[3]

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.[4]

  1. ^ a b "O'Duffy, Eimar". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  2. ^ a b Eimar (Ultan) O'Duffy (1893-1935) Archived 2021-12-17 at the Wayback Machine Ricorso Irish writers database. Retrieved: 2013-08-29.
  3. ^ David Pierce (ed.). Irish Writing In the Twentieth Century, p. 277.
  4. ^ Ua h-Uallachain, Gearoid. "Statement by Witness: W.S.328" (PDF). Bureau of Military History. p. 52. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.