Cormac Kevin Hooker O'Malley (born 20 July 1942, Dublin) is an Irish-American author and historian. The third child of Irish republican Ernie O'Malley and American sculptor Helen Hooker, O'Malley was brought up in County Mayo and later educated in England before moving to the United States to live with his mother after his father's death in 1957. He resides in Stonington, Connecticut.
O'Malley has edited his father's three memoirs on the militant Irish nationalist struggle from 1916 to 1924: On Another Man’s Wound, The Singing Flame and Raids and Rallies, and owns the copyright to these works. In 2021 he co-authored a biography on his father, Ernie O'Malley: A Life.
He is also the custodian of the many papers left by his father and mother and has been active in promoting his family's heritage through books, film, seminars and lectures. He has entrusted his father's nationalist struggle papers to UCD Archives and those of a non-nationalist nature to NYU Archives of Irish America.
O'Malley has been prominent in Irish American cultural exchange, including serving as Glucksman Ireland House Board of Advisors President. He was organiser of the 2014 symposium on Ernie O'Malley and Modern Ireland and Revolution at Glucksman Ireland House. He was also the producer for A Call to Arts, a 2020 documentary on his parents' journey through the arts.
Publications
Cormac O'Malley and Richard English (ed.), Prisoners: The Civil War Letters of Ernie O’Malley (Swords, Poolbeg, 1991)
Cormac O'Malley and Richard English (ed.), No Surrender Here!: The Civil War Papers of Ernie O’Malley, 1922-1924 (Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2007)
Cormac O'Malley (ed.), Rising Out, Sean Connolly of Longford, 1890-1921 by Ernie O’Malley (Dublin, UCD Press, 2007)
Cormac O'Malley and Nicholas Allen (ed.), Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters of Ernie O’Malley, 1924-1957 (Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2011)
Cormac O'Malley and Tim Horgan (ed.), The Men Will Talk to Me: Kerry Interviews by Ernie O’Malley (Dublin, Mercier, 2012)
Cormac O'Malley and Cormac Ó Comhraí (ed.), The Men Will Talk to Me: Galway Interviews by Ernie O’Malley (Dublin, Mercier, 2013)
Cormac O'Malley and Vicent Keane (ed.), The Men Will Talk to Me: Mayo Interviews by Ernie O’Malley (Dublin, Mercier, 2014)
Cormac O'Malley and Juliet Barron (ed.), Western Ways: Remembering Mayo Through the Eyes of Helen Hooker and Ernie O'Malley (Dublin, Mercier, 2015)
Cormac O'Malley (ed.), Modern Ireland and Revolution, Ernie O'Malley in Context (Kildare, IAP, 2016)
Cormac O'Malley and Róisín Kennedy (ed.), Nobody's Business: The Aran Diaries of Ernie O'Malley (Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2017)
Cormac O'Malley and Harry Martin, Ernie O'Malley: A Life (Newbridge, Merrion Press, 2021)
Cormac O'Malley and Patrick Mahoney, The Enchanted Bay: Tales and Legends from Ernie O’Malley’s Irish Folklore Collection (Newbridge, Merrion Press, 2024)
References
- 'Cormac O'Malley: Revolutionary's Son Helps NYU Focus on the "Possibilities"'. The Wild Geese, 8 February 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2024
- Patricia Harty, 'Son of a Rebel: A Conversation with Cormac O'Malley'. Irish America, 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2024
- 'Ernie O'Malley: His life according to Harry F Martin and Cormac KH O'Malley'. Eolas, September 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2024
- 'Ernie O'Malley: A Life'. Irish Academic Press, October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2024
- 'Cormac K. H. O'Malley Papers'. NYU Libraries, undated. Retrieved 7 October 2024
- Christopher Kepple, 'Call to Arts: a Helen Hooker and Ernie O'Malley Documentary'. Irish Central, 13 August 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2024
External links
- Ernie O'Malley: Soldier, Writer, Artist – his father's official website maintained by Cormac O'Malley (ernieomalley.com)