Neil Donnelly
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Born1946
Tullamore, Ireland
Tullamore, Ireland
LanguageEnglish
Yearsactive1974–present
Notable worksThe Silver Dollar Boys
Upstarts
The Duty Master
Upstarts
The Duty Master
Neil Donnelly | |
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| Born | 1946 Tullamore, Ireland |
| Language | English |
| Years active | 1974–present |
| Notable works | The Silver Dollar Boys Upstarts The Duty Master |
Neil Donnelly (born 1946) is an Irish playwright and poet. He is a member of Aosdána, an elite association of Irish artists.[1]
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.[2] 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 (1993) and County Kildare (1999).[3] Several of his works depict the Irish diaspora in England. In 2019 he directed a documentary about Aidan Higgins.[4]