Billy Roche

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Billy Roche (born January 11, 1949 in Wexford ) is an Irish actor , playwright and prose writer.

life and work

Roche was born in Wexford and still lives there. First he was the singer of The Roach Band ; he has appeared as an actor since 1988.

Roche began writing in the 1980s. His best-known plays are The Wexford Trilogy ( A Handful of Stars, Poor Beast in the Rain, Belfry) Cavalcaders, Amphibians and Such As We . He has also published a novel, Tumbling Down . A collection of short stories, Tales from Rainwater Pond , appeared in 2006.

In 2015 he wrote the script for the television series Clean Break .

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