Neil Donnelly
{{Short description|Irish playwright (b. 1946)}}
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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.{{Cite web|url=https://thegalwayreview.com/2019/01/12/neil-donnelly-bunratty-beauty/|title=Neil Donnelly – Bunratty Beauty|date=12 January 2019}}
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.Harding, M. P. (1996:xx-xxi). New Plays from the Abbey Theatre: 1993-1995. United Kingdom: Syracuse University Press. 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).{{Cite web|url=http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/members/donnelly/|title=Aosdána|website=aosdana.artscouncil.ie}} Several of his works depict the Irish diaspora in England. In 2019 he directed a documentary about Aidan Higgins.{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/aidan-higgins-caught-on-camera-in-where-would-you-like-the-bullet-1.3886764|title=Aidan Higgins: caught on camera in Where Would You Like the Bullet?|newspaper=The Irish Times}}
Personal life
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)
===Radio===
- Rotunda Blue (1983)
- The Loop (1987)
- Fire (1998)
- King of the Blues (1998)
- The Darkest Hour (1999)
===Poetry===
=Novel=
- Sister Caravaggio (2014), collaborative novel with Peter Cunningham, Mary O'Donnell and others{{Cite web|url=https://libertiespress.com/product/sister-caravaggio/|title=Sister Caravaggio}}
=Documentary film=
- Where Would You Like The Bullet? (2019){{Cite web|url=https://shaunagilliganwriter.com/2019/03/19/neil-donnelly-on-his-documentary-about-aidan-higgins-where-would-you-like-the-bullet/|title=Writers Chat 17: Neil Donnelly on his documentary about Aidan Higgins "Where Would You Like The Bullet?"|date=19 March 2019}}
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Category:Irish male dramatists and playwrights
Category:Writers from County Offaly
Category:20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights