Patrick Galvin
Patrick Galvin (born August 15, 1927 in Cork , Ireland ; † May 10, 2011 ) was an Irish playwright , poet , novelist and screenwriter .
Life
Galvin spent some time as a teenager at the infamous Daingean Reformatory School in County Offaly . From 1943 he took part in the Second World War as a member of the Royal Air Force on the British side . In the 1950s he first appeared as a singer of Irish folk songs, also made some records for the record labels Topic Records and Irish Workers Association and also played roles as a singer.
He began his writing career in the early 1960s as a playwright. His best-known plays include And Him Stretched (1962), Nightfall to Belfast (1973), The Last Burning (1974) and We Do It For Love (1975), which the two then unknown actors premiered at the Lyric Players' Theater in Belfast Liam Neeson and Gerald Murphy contributed. This was followed by the stage works The Devil's Own People (1976) and My Silver Bird (1981).
In the early 1990s, Galvin processed his youthful experiences in the Daingean Reformatory School in the autobiographical novel trilogy Song for a Poor Boy (1991), Song for a Raggy Boy (1992) and Song for a Fly Boy (2002). The material of these novels was filmed in 2003 under the title Songs for a Raggy Boy by Aisling Walsh with Aidan Quinn , Iain Glen and Marc Warren and awarded numerous prizes, for which he wrote the script himself.
In addition to a number of radio plays for the radio , he has also published several volumes of poetry such as Heart of Grace , Christ in London , The Woodburners , Man on the Porch and Folktales for the General . Galvin, who was also a member of the Irish artists' association Aosdána , received the Irish-American Cultural Institute Award for Poetry for his poems . He continued to write poetry even after suffering a stroke in 2003 .
Web links
- Patrick Galvin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography and Works (irishplayography.com)
- Biography (Munster Literature Center)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aosdána's biography
- ↑ The Irish Times : Death of writer of 'Raggy Boy' trilogy Patrick Galvin at 83 , May 11, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Galvin, Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish playwright, poet, actor, singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cork , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 2011 |