Ó Direáin, Máirtín (1910–88), poet, was born 26 November 1910 in Inis Mór, Aran, Co. Galway, the eldest of the three sons and one daughter of Seán Ó Direáin, small farmer, and Mairéad Ní Dhireáin (widow of Labhrás Mac Confhaola), both of Inis Mór. His father died in 1917, aged forty-…