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Tom MacIntyre

{{Short description|Irish poet, playwright, and writer (1931–2019)}}

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|name=Tom MacIntyre

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|birth_place=Cavan, Ireland

|death_date={{death date and age|2019|10|31|1931|12|10|df=y}}

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  • Poet
  • playwright
  • writer

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Tom MacIntyre (10 December 1931{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/tom-macintyre-obituary-playwright-who-put-nation-in-psychiatrist-s-chair-1.4076735|title=Tom MacIntyre obituary: Playwright who put nation in psychiatrist's chair|newspaper=The Irish Times}} – 31 October 2019){{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/president-leads-tributes-to-late-playwright-and-poet-tom-macintyre-87-1.4067915|title=President leads tributes to late playwright and poet Tom MacIntyre, 87|first=Martin|last=Doyle|newspaper=The Irish Times}} was an Irish poet, playwright and writer. Born in Cavan, he grew up in Bailieborough with his four siblings, and briefly worked as a pharmaceutical chemist, before deciding to write.

MacIntyre played as a goalkeeper for the Cavan junior team which won the Ulster Championship in 1957, and reportedly, also played in the same position for the Cavan senior team.{{cite news|first=Jim|last=Carney|authorlink=Jim Carney (poet)|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/why-have-football-and-hurling-remained-a-cultural-wasteland-for-our-writers-and-artists-39103123.html|title=Why have football and hurling remained a cultural wasteland for our writers and artists?|work=Sunday Independent|date=5 April 2020}}

He was a member of the New Writers Press and became a member of Aosdána in 1981.

He taught at Clongowes Wood College and at American universities, among them the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Williams College, Massachusetts.Information from dustjacket of Tom Mac Intyre's "The Harper's Turn" (1982)

Works

=Poetry=

  • Blood Relations: Versions of Gaelic Poems of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1972),
  • A Glance Will Tell You and A Dream (1994),
  • Ag Caint leis an mBanríon - Coiscéim (1997),
  • Silenus na gCat - Coiscéim (1999),
  • Stories of the Wandering Moon (2000)
  • Tamall Suirí - Coiscéim (2004),

=Plays=

  • Eye Winker-Tom Tinker: 1972, directed by Lelia Doolan at the Abbey Theatre, tells the story of Shooks, an exiled revolutionary leader who returns to galvanise his HQ staff at headquarters with his charm, dynamic force and mystique.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1354 |title= Eye-Winker, Tom-Tinker |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=1}}
  • Jack be Nimble: 1976, directed by Patrick Mason.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1025 |title= Jack Be Nimble |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=2}}
  • Find the Lady: 1977{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1078 |title= Find the Lady |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=3}}
  • The Great Hunger: 1983, directed by Patrick Mason at the Abbey Theatre of Dublin in 1983–6.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=932 |title= The Great Hunger |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=4}} The Great Hunger is an adaptation of the Patrick Kavanagh poem of the same name about a farmer named Maguire.{{cite news|last1=Gussoq|title=Mel|work=The New York Times|date=18 March 1988|ref=5}} Despite the name, the play deals not with Maguire's physical hunger, but rather his spiritual and sensual hunger.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=932 |title= The Great Hunger |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=6}}
  • The Bearded Lady: 1984
  • Rise up Lovely Sweeney: 1985
  • Dance for Your Daddy: 1987, Abbey Theatre. Daughter, 18, has to say goodbye to Daddy. But the two are so close. Say bye bye - but not yet.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=996 |title= Dance for your Daddy |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=7}}
  • Snow White: 1988
  • Foggy Hair and Green Eyes: 1991
  • Sheep's Milk on the Boil: 1994. Somewhere in Ireland's deepest countryside, a couple on the brink of losing their one-time love, are suddenly hurtled through a series of fantastical events conducted by a motley band of spirit-demons, who mercilessly toy with their lives and emotions, throwing them between ecstasy and despair and leaving them both in a thorough state.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1171 |title= Sheep's Milk on the Boil |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=8}}
  • Chickadee: 1992, Red Kettle Theatre Company. Hubert is an older and wiser man, and Julie is younger and more innocent. Their relationship, tender and uncertain from within, is subject to the disapproval of Mom and the resigned acceptance of Dad. Bonzo, Hubert's friend, is the voice of indifferent reason, bemused by Hubert's folly, while Julie's friends, Daphne and Sunniva, offer advice and support as Julie is torn by jealously of the past and uncertainty of the future.{{cite web|website=PlayographyIreland |url= http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=30185 |title= Chickadee |publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|ref=9}}
  • Fine Day for a Hunt: 1992
  • Good Evening, Mr. Collins: 1995, directed by Kathy Mcardle. Fine Day For a Hunt presents a chase. Huntsmen come crashing onto the stage, beagles strain to pick up the scent, spectators lean forward and the commentators give the odds. What is being hunted, however, is a young naked female.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=896 |title= Fine Day For A Hunt |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=10}}
  • The Chirpaun: 1997, directed by Kathy McArdle. In the play, John Joe broods on his seventeen-year-old daughter's pregnancy, and who the father could be. Jacinta herself teases him with the identity of who has left her carrying 'the chirpaun'. In despair, John Joe turns to a hypnotist, hoping to find some release from the consuming anger.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=962 |title= The Chirpaun |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=11}}
  • Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (1998) (winner of the Stewart Parker Prize), directed by Kathy McArdle. The play is a re-telling of the story of Art O'Leary who was killed in the eighteenth century and of the poem said to be composed about him by his wife Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill.{{cite web|website=PlayographyIreland |url= http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=32426 |title= Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire |publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|ref=12}}
  • The Midnight Court: 1999
  • The Gallant John-Joe: 2001, which won The Irish Times/ ESB Irish Theatre Best New Play Award in 2002.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishwriters-online.com/macintyre-tom/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523171612/http://www.irishwriters-online.com/macintyre-tom/|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 May 2013|title=Tom MacIntyre|publisher=Irish Writers Online|accessdate=8 January 2013}} The Gallant John-Joe is the soliloquy of a Cavan widower grappling with physical and mental infirmity. What keeps him on his feet is his capacity to tell stories, to make a story of anything that moves, using language as a crutch, ointment, talisman, intoxicant. In his stories he introduces us to the characters in his life: Bossman, his well-to-do patronising friend, The Hitmatist; The Chinee; John-Joe O'Reilly, captain of the conquering Cavan team of the late 1940s, and Jacinta, his teenage daughter.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=676|title= The Gallant John-Joe |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=13}}
  • What Happened Bridgie Cleary: 2005, directed by Alan Gilsenan at the Abbey Theatre. Bridgie Cleary was burned alive for alleged witchcraft in 1895, and in the play, she is reunited in the anteroom of Heaven with her husband and lover.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1817 |title= What Happened Bridgie Cleary |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon WIlliams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=14}}
  • Only an Apple: 2009, directed by Selena Cartmell. Fearing the rising star of his ambitious chief whip, the Taoiseach decides to eliminate his rival through the time-honoured means of sex and scandal. His chosen accomplices are Queen Elizabeth I of England and Grace O'Malley, the Pirate Queen. Arriving in a raucous storm of sexual mischief, the royal guests proceed to wreak merry havoc on the Taoiseach's household, leaving their host with considerably more than he had originally bargained for.{{cite web|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=3222 |title= Only an Apple |website=PlayographyIreland|publisher=Jonathon Williams Literary Agency|accessdate=11 February 2017|ref=15}}

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Category:1931 births

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Category:Aosdána members

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Category:Irish poets

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Category:Irish male dramatists and playwrights

Category:Writers from County Cavan