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Piaras Beaslai
Piaras Beaslai (1881-1965) was an Irish author, playwright, biographer and translator, who was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, fought in the Easter Rising and served ...view morePiaras Beaslai (1881-1965) was an Irish author, playwright, biographer and translator, who was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, fought in the Easter Rising and served as a member of Dail Eireann.
He was born Percy Frederick Beazley in Liverpool, England on February 15, 1881 to Irish Catholic parents, Patrick Langford Beazley and Nannie Hickey. His father Patrick Langford Beazley, from Killarney, County Kerry, moved to Egremont, Cumbria and was the editor of The Catholic Times newspaper for 40 years. Beaslai was educated at St. Xavier’s Jesuit College in Liverpool, where he developed his keen interest in Irish; by the time he was aged 17 his Irish proficiency was exceptional.
Following graduation, he was encouraged to begin Irish poetry by Tadhg O Donnchadha. Beaslai followed his father’s footsteps into journalism when he began working for the local Wallasey News, and in 1906 he moved to Dublin. Within a year he became a freelance writer for the Irish Peasant, Irish Independent, Freeman’s Journal and Express. He was offered a permanent position with Independent Newspapers, as assistant leader writer and special reporter for the Dublin Evening Telegraph. He wrote regularly for the Freeman’s Journal, including a daily half-column in Irish.
After his early introduction to Irish poetry he became involved in staging Irish-language amateur drama at the Oireachtas annual music festival. Beaslai began to write both original works and adaptations from foreign languages. One of these works, Eachtra Pheadair Schlemiel (1909), was translated from German into Irish. He continued to write poetry and between 1913-1939 also wrote many plays. He wrote two books about his comrade Michael Collins: Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland (2 volumes, 1926) and Michael Collins: Soldier and Statesman (1937).
He won a gold medal at the Tailteann Literary Awards in 1928.
Beaslai died in Dublin on June 22, 1965, aged 84.view less
Books by Piaras Beaslai
Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland Vol. I Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland Vol. II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings