Arland Ussher

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1899 – 1980

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Who was Arland Ussher?

Percival "Percy" Arland Ussher was an Anglo-Irish academic, essayist and translator.

Born in Battersea, London, he studied at Cambridge University for some time. In 1926 he published a translation of The Midnight Court by the Irish Gaelic-language poet, Brian Merriman.

He published The Face and Mind of Ireland and Three Great Irishmen, a comparative study of Shaw, Yeats, and Joyce.

He moved to County Waterford to manage the family farm before moving to Dublin in 1953.

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Born
1899
Battersea
Profession
Education
  • University of Cambridge
Lived in
  • Dublin
Died
1980

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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