T. C. Murray

Thomas Cornelius Murray ( born January 17, 1873 in Macroom, County Cork, Ireland, † March 7, 1959 in Dublin) was an Irish playwright.

Life

After schooling he received at St Patrick 's College of Education in Drumcondra trained as a teacher and was last rector at the National School in Rathduff.

Together with Daniel Corkery, Con O'Leary and Terence MacSwiney in 1908 he founded the Cork Literary Society, from 1909, the Little Theatre emerged. In 1909 he made ​​his literary debut with the play The Wheel of Fortune, the newly appeared after a revision in 1913 under the title Sovereign Love.

Murray wrote in the subsequent period a total of fifteen folk - realistic dramas that were influenced by the spirit of the Irish Renaissance and life in County Cork. He also used the pseudonym Stephen Morgan '. Among his most famous pieces of the first year include Birthright (1910) and Maurice Harte ( 1912).

In 1915 he moved to Dublin, there was rector of the model school in Dublin's Inchicore, where he worked until his retirement in 1932. Among other stage works arising on these particular Autumn Fire ( 1924), which was also performed at Broadway theaters. In 1937 he wrote an autobiographical novel titled Spring Horizon.

Background literature

  • Albert J. DeGiacomo: T.C. Murray, Dramatist: Voice of the Irish Peasant, 2002, ISBN 0-8156-2945-1

External links and sources

  • Literature of and over TC Murray in the catalog that German national library
  • Biography ( PGIL - eirdata.org )
  • Biography and works ( irishplayography.com )
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