Life
?- ; b. and ed., Belfast; writer-in-residence, Lyric Theatre, 1983-84;
Young Vic, London, 1988-89; lives in London; runner up to Irish Times
women’s playwright award competition, 1982, with Tea in a China
Cup (1983), dealing with three generations of working-class Protestant
women, winner of Thames YC Playwright Scheme Award 1983; Did You Hear
the One About the Irishman ...? 1980), Ulster TV Drama Award, 1980;
The Belle of Belfast City (1986), George Devine Award, 1986; The
Last of a Dyin’ Race (1986), Giles Cooper Award, 1986; Lords,
Dukes and Earls (1989), commissioned by Young Vic; My Name, Shall
I Tell You My Name (Yew Tree Th., Ballina, 1989), moved to London
Young Vic; Joyriders [n.d.]. ATT
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Works
The Last of a Dyin’ Race (1986); Tea in a China Cup, and
Joyriders (London: Methuen 1987); The Belle of Belfast City and
Did You Hear the One About the Irishman ...? (London: Methuen 1989);
also ‘Wasteground’, in Threshold, No. 35 (Winter 1984/85),
pp.34-39.
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Criticism
Anthony Roche, ‘Northern Irish Drama: Imaging Alternatives’,
in Contemporary Irish Drama From Beckett to McGuinness (Dublin:
Gill & Macmillan 1995), pp.216-78.
Imelda Foley, The Girls in the Big Picture: Gender in Contemporary Ulster Theatre (Belfast: Blackstaff 2003), 186pp.
Elizabeth Doyle, ‘Men don’t cook in west Belfast’, Fortnight (Mar 1995).
John Keyes, Play Review, Fortnight (March 1995).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)