Name Eugene McCabe | Role Novelist | |
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Notable works Death and Nightingales, Cancer trilogy (Cancer, Heritage, Siege) Tales from the Poorhouse, King Of The Castle Books Death and Nightingales, Heaven Lies About Us, King of the Castle, The Love of Sisters, Tales from the poorhouse | ||
Eugene mccabe in kennys bookshop
Eugene McCabe (born 1930) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright and television screenwriter.
Contents
- Eugene mccabe in kennys bookshop
- Iron Mountain 2017 Eugene McCabe Interview
- Biography
- List of works
- References
Iron Mountain 2017 - Eugene McCabe Interview
Biography
Born to Irish emigrants in Glasgow, Scotland, he moved with his family to Ireland in the early 1940s. He lives on a farm near Clones in County Monaghan, near the Irish border.
His play King of the Castle caused a minor scandal when first shown in 1964 and was protested by the League of Decency. 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. His 1992 novel Death and Nightingales has been called by Irish writer Colm Tóibín "one of the great Irish masterpieces of the century" and a "classic of our times" by Kirkus Reviews. He defended fellow novelist Dermot Healy by attacking 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.