Neil Donnelly

Neil Donnelly is an Irish playwright and poet. He is a member of Aosdána, an elite association of Irish artists.

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. 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 and County Kildare. Several of his works depict the Irish diaspora in England. In 2019 he directed a documentary about Aidan Higgins.

Personal life

Donnelly lives in County Kildare.

Works

Stage

The Station Master
Upstarts
The Silver Dollar Boys
Flying Home
Chalk Farm Blues
Boys of Summer
Blindfold
Goodbye Carraroe
The Reel McCoy
The Duty Master
Four is a Magic Number
Butterfly
''Invitation to a Poisoning''

Radio

Rotunda Blue
The Loop
Fire
King of the Blues
''The Darkest Hour''

Poetry

''Tullamore Train''

Novel

Sister Caravaggio, collaborative novel with Peter Cunningham, Mary O'Donnell and others

Documentary film

''Where Would You Like The Bullet?''