Irish playwright (b. 1946)
Neil Donnelly |
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| Born | 1946 (1946)
Tullamore, Ireland |
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| Language | English |
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| Years active | 1974–present |
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| Notable works | The Silver Dollar Boys
Upstarts
The Duty Master |
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Neil Donnelly (born 1946) is an Irish playwright and poet. He is a member of Aosdána, an elite association of Irish artists.[1]
Early life
Donnelly was born in 1946 in Tullamore, County Offaly.
Career
In the 1970s Donnelly founded "Wheels," a theatre in education company that toured Great Britain.[2] Donnelly has written over 20 plays for stage and radio. He won the Harvey's Irish Theatre Award for Best Play in 1981 was the Abbey Theatre's writer-in-association in 1994. He has also held writer-in-residence posts in County Mayo (1993) and County Kildare (1999).[3] Several of his works depict the Irish diaspora in England. In 2019 he directed a documentary about Aidan Higgins.[4]
Personal life
Donnelly lives in County Kildare.[5]
Works
Stage
- The Station Master (1974)
- Upstarts (1980)
- The Silver Dollar Boys (1981)
- Flying Home (1983)
- Chalk Farm Blues (1984)
- Boys of Summer (1985)
- Blindfold (1986)
- Goodbye Carraroe (1989)
- The Reel McCoy (1989)
- The Duty Master (1995)
- Four is a Magic Number (1995)
- Butterfly (2005)
- Invitation to a Poisoning (2010)[3]
Radio
- Rotunda Blue (1983)
- The Loop (1987)
- Fire (1998)
- King of the Blues (1998)
- The Darkest Hour (1999)
Poetry
- Tullamore Train (2012)[6]
Novel
- Sister Caravaggio (2014), collaborative novel with Peter Cunningham, Mary O'Donnell and others[7]
Documentary film
- Where Would You Like The Bullet? (2019)[8]
References
