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Donagh MacDonagh (12 November 1912 - 1 January 1968) was an Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
 and judge
Judge

A judge, or arbiter of justice, is a lead official who presides over a court of law,which is operated by the local, state, and/or federal government....
.

The son of the poet Thomas MacDonagh
Thomas MacDonagh

Thomas MacDonagh was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising....
, he was born in Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
 and was still a young child when his father was executed in 1916. Tragedy struck again when his mother died not long afterwards in a swimming accident.

MacDonagh was educated at Belvedere College
Belvedere College

Belvedere College SJ is a private secondary school for boys located on Great Denmark Street, Dublin, Ireland. It is also known as St. Francis Xavier's College...
 and University College Dublin. In 1935 he was called to the Bar and practised on the Western Circuit.






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Donagh MacDonagh (12 November 1912 - 1 January 1968) was an Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
 and judge
Judge

A judge, or arbiter of justice, is a lead official who presides over a court of law,which is operated by the local, state, and/or federal government....
.

The son of the poet Thomas MacDonagh
Thomas MacDonagh

Thomas MacDonagh was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising....
, he was born in Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
 and was still a young child when his father was executed in 1916. Tragedy struck again when his mother died not long afterwards in a swimming accident.

MacDonagh was educated at Belvedere College
Belvedere College

Belvedere College SJ is a private secondary school for boys located on Great Denmark Street, Dublin, Ireland. It is also known as St. Francis Xavier's College...
 and University College Dublin. In 1935 he was called to the Bar and practised on the Western Circuit. In 1941 he became a District Justice. He was Justice for the Dublin Metropolitan Courts at the time of his death.

He published three volumes of poetry: "Veterans and Other Poems" Cuala Press about 1943, The Hungry Grass (Faber and Famer, 1947), and A Warning to Conquerors (Dolmen Press 1969). He also edited the Oxford Book of Irish Verse
Oxford Book of Irish Verse

The Oxford Book of Irish Verse, 17th century-20th century was a poetry anthology edited by Donagh MacDonagh and Lennox Robinson. It was published by Oxford University Press in 1958....
 (1958) with Lennox Robinson
Lennox Robinson

Esm? Stuart Lennox Robinson was an Ireland dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre.Robinson was born in Westgrove, Douglas in County Cork and raised in a Protestant and Unionism family in which he was the youngest of seven children....
. A play, Happy As Larry, was translated into a number of languages. He had three other plays produced: God's Gentry (a ballad opera about the tinkers), Lady Spinder (about Deirdre of the Sorrow and the Three sons of Ussna and by far his best writing) and Step in the Hollow a piece of situation comedy nonesense. He also wrote short stories.

He was married twice - his first wife died - and had four children from the two marriages.

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