Life
1954- ;b. Dublin; ed. Christian Brothers, North Brunswick St.; journalism
at Rathmines College; sub-editor, feature writer and drama critic for Irish
Press; also worked for New Hibernia and Evening Press;
poems Demons (1981); four plays produced at Peacock Theatre, The
Midnight Door (1983), Sensations (1986), Remember Mauritania
(1987), Josephine in the Night (1988); four plays at Dublin Theatre
Festival, The Dosshouse Waltz (1985), Private Death of a Queen
(1986), Sea Urchins (1988), Candlemas Night (1991); plays
on RTÉ, Remember Mauritania (1985), Obituaries (1991),
Ladies in Waiting (1993), Searching for Gentleman Joe (1995),
also stories on RTÉ; thrice winner of O. Z. Whitehead Award; thrice
winner of Francis MacManus Radio Short Story Competition; nominated best
new playwright of 1985 Dublin Theatre Festival by International Herald
Tribune; short story collection Mad Angels of Paxenau Street
(1990). DIL
Works
Demons and Other Poems (Gorey: Gorey Arts
Centre 1981); Sensations and The Midnight Door (Dublin:
Society of Irish Playwrights 1986); Mad Angels of Paxenau Street
(Dublin: Kildanore 1990).
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