Daniel Corkery

Daniel Corkery (1878–1964) was an Irish poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer, academic and politician. Born in Cork, Corkery was for many years a teacher and became a controversial figure in Irish academia for his radical nationalist views on Irish literature. His literary works include the plays The Labour Leader (1919) and The Yellow Bittern (1920), the short story collections A Munster Twilight (1916) and Earth Out of Earth (1939), and the novel The Threshold of Quiet (1917).