Editing Michael Hartnett (section)

==A Farewell to English==
In 1974 Hartnett decided to leave Dublin to return to his rural roots, as well as deepen his relationship with the Irish language. He went to live in [[Templeglantine]], five miles from Newcastle West, and worked for a time as a lecturer in creative writing at [[Thomond College of Education, Limerick]]. Also, in 1974, he first won both the Irish American Literature Award and the Arts Council Award in the same year. Then in 1975, he made the great and bold political statement that he was going to no longer write in English but that he was going to "court the language of his people" with the publication of A Farewell to English. A number of volumes in Irish followed: ''Adharca Broic'' (1978), ''An Phurgóid'' (1983) and ''Do Nuala: Foighne Chrainn'' (1984). He received the Irish-American Cultural Institute Award in 1980, and the Irish Arts Council Award for the best book in Irish in 1986.  
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A biography on this period of Michael Hartnett's life entitled 'A Rebel Act Michael Hartnett's Farewell To English' by Pat Walsh was published in 2012 by Mercier Press.