page_title: Pádraic Ó Conaire
section_title: Inspiration for internet based satire
hierarchical_section_title: Pádraic Ó Conaire / Life / Inspiration for internet based satire
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of Pádraic Ó Conaire in Eyre Square, Galway 1950s
context_page_description: Pádraic Ó Conaire was an Irish writer and journalist whose production was primarily in the Irish language. In his lifetime he wrote 26 books, 473 stories, 237 essays and 6 plays. His acclaimed novel Deoraíocht has been described by Angela Bourke as 'the earliest example of modernist fiction in Irish'.
context_section_description: Ó Conaire's short story M'asal Beag Dubh was the inspiration for an internet based satire on the football transfer market. The fictitious character Masal Bugduv was created, the name sounds just like the Gaelic pronunciation of M'asal Beag Dubh. Journalists who didn't fact check quite as thoroughly as they should have missed the satire and told the world of the up-and-coming Moldovan star.
caption: Statue of Pádraic Ó Conaire that stood in Eyre Square, Galway. Now in Galway City Museum
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