Patrick Galvin

Patrick Galvin ( born August 15, 1927 in Cork, Ireland, † May 10, 2011 ) was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist and screenwriter.

Life

Galvin was a teenager some time in the notorious Daingean Reformatory School in County Offaly. From 1943 he participated as a member of the Royal Air Force in part on the British side in World War II. In the 1950s, he initially joined as a singer of Irish folk songs, also took some records at 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 dramatist. Among his most famous pieces include And Him Stretched (1962), Nightfall to Belfast ( 1973), The Last Burning (1974) and We Do It For Love (1975 ), in his first performance at the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast, the two then-unknown actor Liam Neeson and Gerald Murphy participated. This was followed by the stage works The Devil 's Own People (1976 ) and My Silver Bird ( 1981).

In the early 1990s processed Galvin his youthful experiences in the Daingean Reformatory School in the autobiographical trilogy Song for a Poor Boy (1991 ) Song for a Raggy Boy ( 1992) and Song for a Fly Boy ( 2002). The substance 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 received numerous awards, which he himself wrote the screenplay so.

In addition to a series of radio plays for radio, he also published several volumes of poetry such as Heart of Grace, Christ in London, The Woodburners, Man on the Porch and Folk Tales for the General. For his poems Galvin, who was also a member of the Irish artists' association Aosdána was awarded among others, the Irish - American Cultural Institute Award for Poetry. The writing of poems he set even after a stroke suffered in 2003 continued.

External links and sources

• Patrick Galvin at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography and works ( irishplayography.com )