Thomas Patrick McKenna (7 September 1929 â€" 13 February 2011) was an
Irish actor, born in Mullagh, County Cavan. He had an extensive stage
and screen career.Thomas Patrick McKenna was born at Mullagh, Co.
Cavan, Ireland, in 1929 and educated at Mullagh School and St
Patrick's College, Cavan. There he became a protégé of Fr. Vincent
Kennedy who featured him in the annual productions of Gilbert &
Sullivan operas. He was a noted treble and sang in Cavan Cathedral,
but later would also become a keen member of the school's Gaelic
Football squad representing St Patrick's in the final of the All
Ireland colleges competition in 1948.After leaving school he joined
the Ulster Bank in Granard, Co Longford, and worked in banking for the
next five years. However, he remained set on becoming an actor and
when he received a posting to Dublin he soon made a mark on the city's
amateur scene appearing with the Rathmines & Rathgar Operatic Society,
and the Dublin Shakespeare Society. His employers were not impressed
by his extra curricular activities and in 1953 he was posted to the
remote town of Killeshandra in County Cavan. McKenna refused to go and
resigned his position.
Irish actor, born in Mullagh, County Cavan. He had an extensive stage
and screen career.Thomas Patrick McKenna was born at Mullagh, Co.
Cavan, Ireland, in 1929 and educated at Mullagh School and St
Patrick's College, Cavan. There he became a protégé of Fr. Vincent
Kennedy who featured him in the annual productions of Gilbert &
Sullivan operas. He was a noted treble and sang in Cavan Cathedral,
but later would also become a keen member of the school's Gaelic
Football squad representing St Patrick's in the final of the All
Ireland colleges competition in 1948.After leaving school he joined
the Ulster Bank in Granard, Co Longford, and worked in banking for the
next five years. However, he remained set on becoming an actor and
when he received a posting to Dublin he soon made a mark on the city's
amateur scene appearing with the Rathmines & Rathgar Operatic Society,
and the Dublin Shakespeare Society. His employers were not impressed
by his extra curricular activities and in 1953 he was posted to the
remote town of Killeshandra in County Cavan. McKenna refused to go and
resigned his position.
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