Lord Dismiss Us

In 2017, Taggart creator Glenn Chandler^[2] adapted the novel into a play for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, to mark the 50th Anniversary of the partial legalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales.^[3] The play received positive reviews,^[4][5][6][7] and subsequently transferred to the Above The Stag Theatre in London later that year.^[8] The play was once again reviewed positively,^[9][10][11] and received four Off West End Award nominations, including "Best Production" and "Best New Play".^[12]

The author, Michael Mussen Campbell (1924–1984), was the grandson of the 1st Baron Glenavy and brother of the 3rd Baron, the humourist Patrick Campbell. He was a Dubliner who attended St Columba's College and Trinity College. Lord Dismiss Us was allegedly based on the suicide of a St Columba's schoolmaster.^{[citation needed]}

Briefly a barrister at the Irish Bar, Campbell worked in London for the Irish Times. His other novels included Peter Perry (1956), a "story of Dublin Theatrical Life", Oh Mary, This London (1959), a fantasy set in London, and Across the Water (1959).

Michael Campbell succeeded his brother Patrick in 1980 to become the 4th and last Baron Glenavy. He died in London on 10 June 1984,^[13] having never married.