Maurice Walsh

Novelist, Author

1879 – 1964

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Who was Maurice Walsh?

Maurice Walsh was an Irish novelist best known for the short story The Quiet Man which was later made into an Oscar-winning movie directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Walsh was born in 1879 in Ballydonoghue near Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland. He was one of Ireland's best-selling authors in the 1930s.

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Born
1879
Ireland
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Died
Feb 18, 1964

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on July 23, 2013

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