Liam MacGabhann (born William Cyprian Smith) (1908-1979) was an Irish journalist who was born Reenglas House on Valentia Island, Co Kerry in 1908.
He married Phenie (Tryphena) Franklin (born 1917 Middlesbrough, England) and has three children Jack, Richard and Dorothy. After starting his career as a national school teacher at Valentia, he attended an interview for the post as a film critic for Irish Press. He was honest about his lack of knowledge, explaining that he had only heard of Greta Garbo and had watched the Mickey Mouse movie, he was still given the job.
MacGabhann works for Irish Press, is Irish editor The People Newspaper (1956), Irish Times News Editor, works for This Week magazine and is one of the founding editors of Sunday World. He died after a series of strokes in 1979 in Dublin.
- Travel to America with Eamon DeValera on the Fianna FÃÆ'¡il fundraising tour.
- Go to multiple times to Hollywood - Hollywood Reporter
- A Phoblacht
- The Asgard sailing training boat was discovered by LMacG on the banks of the Truro River and after lobbying for repurchase by the state, the ship sailed back to Howth on July 29, 1961. The vessel was laid at a coal port for funding until 1969 when the strong Yachtsman and future Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Charles J. Haughey along with others have established him as an Irish Sailing Training vessel.
- Talking Topics on RTÃÆ' radio.
- Documentary on Valentia
- John Wayne's interview in Cong while filming The Quiet Man
- Tyrone Power/Maureen O'Sullivan's interview at Irish Press.
- Rags Robes and Rebels - poetry book
- Visiting the Soviet Union with Anthony Cronin and James Plunkett
Video Liam MacGabhann
Connolly poems
James Connolly - Poems by Liam MacGabhann This poem was written by Liam MacGabhann. He writes in "Rags, Robes and Rebels" that it is based on reading comments made by the Welsh miner's son who was part of the Connolly firefight team who then asked relatives of Connolly to forgive him.
Connolly
The man was shot through who came today
To the barracks square;
A soldier I - I'm not proud to say
We killed him there;
They took him from the prison hospital;
To see it on that seat
I think his smile will be much faster calling the Site A man to pray for Maybe we can not understand this
It keeps these rebels dead; But everything likes freedom - and Spring Obviously in the sky; I think I will not do this deed again
For all I hold;
Subdue my gun on his chest - but then
A soldier I.
They say that he is friendly - different too,
Apart from all the rest; A lover of the poor; and all shot,
The sores are sick,
He comes before us, confronts us like a man,
He knew the pain deeper Rather than a blow or a bullet - before the world begins; Dead in vain? Ready - now; And he just smiled - God! I felt my rifle shake The wounds open and spin in the chair Is a red lake; I swear his lips say 'Fire!' when everything is still
Before my shotgun spit
Cursed be that cursed it - and I was chosen to kill
Such a man!
VALENTIA
I could hear wild music from the river and fall But the breeze carries the call soft and soft It calls me home, 'a sweet flow of songs.
It flows into beautiful Glanleam forestland Ah, my heart is almost broken because of longing and pain Hi home! Will you comfort your seclusion again?
In clear brightness from the dawn, in the soft dusk in the afternoon There is no place on earth like my own Island house Liam MacGabhann 1932
The Blind at Croke Park
Listen, asthore, because this eye is sealed,
Listen once again, when Kerrymen takes the field,
Tell parents who saw them in old age,
Are they walking proudly in green and gold?
Listen, asthore, when Kerry takes over field,
Tell me when they attack and when they give up;
Say if they fail; asthore, i am blind and old, Tell me they will not pollute the colors green and gold. '
Maps Liam MacGabhann
References
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