Life
1902-? ; b. Galway; Old Age Pensions Civil Servant, travelled throughout
rural Ireland; plays include famous Abbey success, The Righteous are
Bold (1946), often revived; also, They Went By Bus; and Peeping
Tom (1940). DIW
Notes
See Jennifer Johnston, The Illusionist (1995), ‘... we went
to the Abbey on Thursday to see the play by Frank Carney, that everyone
is scandalised by. The name escapes me. I can’ say that I though
very much of it.’ (p.36-38).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)