Arland Ussher

Percival Arland "Percy" Ussher (1899–1980) 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 (Cúirt an Mheán-Oíche) by the Irish Gaelic-language poet, Brian Merriman. Ussher published The Face and Mind of Ireland (1949) and Three Great Irishmen (1952), a comparative study of Shaw, Yeats, and Joyce. Ussher moved to County Waterford to manage the family farm before moving to Dublin in 1953.

External links

Answers.com
Emory University literature collection
Genealogy
Arland Ussher Correspondence, 1921-1959 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 74873267 LCCN: n50046510 ISNI: 0000 0000 8266 3035 GND: 127371796 SUDOC: 128163259 NLA: 35574319

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