Eugene McCabe (7 July 1930 â€" 27 August 2020) was a Scots-born Irish
novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television
screenwriter.Born to Irish emigrants in Glasgow, Scotland, he moved
with his family to Ireland in the early 1940s.[1] He lived on a farm
near Lackey Bridge, just outside Clones in County Monaghan.[2] He was
educated at Castleknock College.[3]His play King of the Castle caused
a minor scandal when first shown in 1964 and was protested by the
League of Decency.[1] McCabe wrote his award-winning trilogy of
television plays, consisting of Cancer, Heritage and Siege, because he
felt he had to make a statement about the Troubles.[1] His 1992 novel
Death and Nightingales has been called by Irish writer Colm TóibÃn
"one of the great Irish masterpieces of the century"[4] and a "classic
of our times" by Kirkus Reviews.[5] He defended fellow novelist Dermot
Healy by reviewing a reviewer of his book, Eileen Battersby, in The
Irish Times in 2011, using the Joycean cloacal invective "shite and
onions", causing considerable controversy in the Irish literary
community.[6][7]
novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television
screenwriter.Born to Irish emigrants in Glasgow, Scotland, he moved
with his family to Ireland in the early 1940s.[1] He lived on a farm
near Lackey Bridge, just outside Clones in County Monaghan.[2] He was
educated at Castleknock College.[3]His play King of the Castle caused
a minor scandal when first shown in 1964 and was protested by the
League of Decency.[1] McCabe wrote his award-winning trilogy of
television plays, consisting of Cancer, Heritage and Siege, because he
felt he had to make a statement about the Troubles.[1] His 1992 novel
Death and Nightingales has been called by Irish writer Colm TóibÃn
"one of the great Irish masterpieces of the century"[4] and a "classic
of our times" by Kirkus Reviews.[5] He defended fellow novelist Dermot
Healy by reviewing a reviewer of his book, Eileen Battersby, in The
Irish Times in 2011, using the Joycean cloacal invective "shite and
onions", causing considerable controversy in the Irish literary
community.[6][7]
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