Life
1928-1996 [Conor Anthony Farrington]; b. Dublin, ed. St. Columba’s,
TCD, and Yale Drama School; English acting tours in Malta and Indiam.
Meryl Gourley; Radio Eireann Rep. since 1955. Radio plays include Death of
Don Juan (1951); The Tribunal (1959); The Good Shepherd
(1961); The Ghostly Garden (1964) won ICA Drama Comp.; plays, The
Last P.M., or Stella and the Big Bang (Gate 1964); Aaron Thy Brother,
verse play about John Philpot Curran with a chorus of Irish soldiers in
the Congo (Peacock 1969; Newark: Proscenium 1975). Regularly took parts
in Radio Eireann plays. DIW DIL OCIL
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Works
Poetry, Death of Don Juan (1951); The Tribunal (1959);
The Good Shepherd (1961); The Ghostly Garden (1964).
Plays, The Last P.M., or Stella and the Big Bang (Gate 1964); Aaron Thy Brother (Peacock 1969); The Stranger and Other Stories (Cork: Fish Publishing 1996) [incl. ‘Virtuoso’, A story about a classical pianist and his rival.]
Miscellaneous, ‘The Language of Drama’, in The Dubliner (July-Aug. 1962), pp.35-43.
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Notes
James W. Flannery includes Conor Farrington included and his wife among
acknowledgements in Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre (Tor: Macmillan
1976; rep. Yale UP 1989), pb.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)