Life
ESB worker before his imagination was fired by Abbey plays; issued Beyond Pulditch Gates (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), a study of the 1913 Lockout; won Heinrich Bohl Award with ‘Thoughts on a close-down’; Jennifer Johnston, judging the competition, encouraged him to turn the story into a novel; sold to Wolfhound by his agent Darley Anderson (London) at Frankfurt Book Fair; his play The Witness concerning a rape case for which he was a juror won the Listowel Playwrights Award, 1999; studying English at TCD from 1998.
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Works
Beyond Pulditch Gates (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001) [q.pp.].
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Criticism
Shirley Kelly, interview, Books Ireland, Feb. 2002, p.9 [as supra].
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