<p>While Frank O'Connor was known primarily as one of Ireland's finest short-story writers, he was also an accomplished translator. In the long line of Irish writers given to translating poems in Irish into poems written in English ? a tradition stretching back at least as far as Jonathan Swift ? he stands out above all the rest.<br>Between the mid-1920s and the mid-1960s, O'Connor published 121 translations that give voice to the full range of t...