Tomás Ó Criomhthain, a native of the Great Blasket Island off the Kerry coast, wrote the famous autobiography An tOileánach (1929) also published by An Gúm, later translated by Robin Flower (1881-1946), Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, as The Islandman (1929). Allagar na hInise describes the people and events of the years 1918-1923 on the Great Blasket. Tim Enright translated Allagar na hInise as Island Cross-Talk in 1986.
Born Alfred Willmore in London, Mícheál Mac Liammóir is best known as an actor and director. With his life-long partner Hilton Edwards (1903-1982), he founded the Gate Theatre in Dublin in 1928 and co-founded An Taibhdhearc, the Irish language theatre in Galway.
A native of Leitir Mealláin, Co. Galway. He published two collections of local short stories in 1926 and 1929. He also wrote pantomimes for the Galway based theatre An Taibhdhearc.
