File: Máirtín Ó Direáin

• Chum Máirtín Ó Direáin an dán.
  • Máirtín Ó Direáin composed the poem.
• Rugadh é ar na hOileáin Árann sa bhliain 1910.
  • He was born on the Aran Islands in the year 1910.
• D'fhág sé an t-oileán nuair a bhí sé ocht mbliana déag d'aois.
  • He left the island when he was eighteen years of age.

• D'oibrigh sé in Ard-Oifig an Phoist i nGaillimh ó 1928 go 1937.
  • He worked in the General Post Office in Galway from 1928 to 1937.
• D'oibrigh sé mar stát seirbhíseach don Roinn Oideachais i mBaile Átha Cliath ó mbliain 1937 ar aghaidh.
  • He worked as a civil servant for the Department of Education in Dublin from 1937 onwards.

• Thaitin saol an oileáin go mór leis agus bhraith sé uaidh é nuair nach raibh sé ann.
  • He really enjoyed island life and missed it when he was not there.
• D'fhoilsigh sé a lán leabhair, mar shampla Coinnle Geala (1941) agus Feamainn Bhealtaine (1961.)
  • He published many books, for example Coinnle Geala (1941) and Feamainn Bhealtaine (1961.)

• Fuair sé bás sa bhliain 1988.
  • He died in 1988.