#ArlandUssher had spent only one term at #TCD and one in #Cambridge, but not for want of brains. He taught himself Irish, then translated the 18th century poem "The midnight court" (1926), by #BrianMerriman. He published two volumes of folk tales from the #Déise Gaeltacht gathered from his ploughman.

In Dublin he wrote "The face and mind of Ireland" (1950) exploring the national character, and "Three great Irishmen" (1952), a study of James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, and W. B. Yeats.