Life
1920- ; b. and ed. Crescent College, Limerick; moved to England, returned
to work at Shannon Airport; 25 plays, a musical, and scripts for radio
and television; stage plays incl. Alas Poor Yorick (1953); Decision
at Easter (Gate, 1959). dealing with tensions among Easter Rising
leaders Rising; Mourn the Ivy Leaf (1960), on C. S. Parnell; The
Stepping Stone (1963), on Michael Collins; also, Watershed
(1967); A Beginning of Truth (1968), on contemporary politics;
The Treaty Debates (1972), and Dev (1977; Co-Op Books, 1978,
76pp.), portrait of de Valera as rebel turned statesman. DIW DIL OCIL
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Works
Decision at Easter: A Play in Three Acts (Dublin: Progress House
1960) [q.pp.]; Dev (Dublin: Co-op Books, 1978 ), 76pp.; Mourn
the Ivy Leaf: A Play of Parnell in Three Acts [Foreword by R. M. Fox]
(Dublin: Progress House 1965), 72pp.; Watershed: A Play in Three Acts
[New Irish Plays, ed. Robert Hogan] (Newark, Del: Proscenium Press
1981), 83pp.; And a Yellow Singing Bird: A Play in Two Acts (Dublin:
Elo Press, 1983), 90pp., 5 pls.; Beggar and Bloom: A Play in Two Acts
(Glenageary: [private] 2000), 108, 4pp.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)