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يتمه: تم التخلي عنه لتربيه عائلة
keyes
مجاله: اديب - ايرلندي
Hugh Leonard (9 November 1926 – 12 February 2009) was an
Irish
dramatist
,
television writer
and
essayist
. In a career that spanned 50 years, Leonard wrote more than 18 plays, two volumes of essays and two autobiographies, one novel and numerous screenplays and teleplays, as well as writing a regular newspaper column
Leonard was born in Dublin as John Joseph Byrne, but was put up for adoption. Raised in
Dalkey
, a suburb of Dublin, by Nicholas and Margaret Keyes, he changed his name to John Keyes Byrne. For the rest of his life, despite the pen name of "Hugh Leonard" which he later adopted and became well known by, he invited close friends to call him "Jack".
[3]
Leonard was educated at the Harold Boys' National School, Dalkey, and
Presentation College
, Glasthule, winning a scholarship to the latter.
[1]
[4]
He worked as a civil servant, for 14 years. During that time he both acted in and wrote plays for community theatre groups.
[1]
[2]
[4]
His first play to be professionally produced was
The Big Birthday Suit
, which was mounted by the
Abbey Theatre
in
Dublin
in 1956. After that his plays were produced regularly by Dublin's theatres.
[2]
He moved to
Manchester
for a while, working for
Granada Television
before returning to Ireland in 1970. There he settled in Dalkey.
[1]
During the 1960s and 1970s, Leonard adapted a number of classic novels for British television. In 1969, he won a
Jacob's Award
for his TV scripts for
Nicholas Nickleby
and
Wuthering Heights
. He wrote the script for the
RTÉ
adaptation of
Strumpet City
by
James Plunkett
.
[5]
Three of Leonard's plays have been presented on
Broadway
:
The Au Pair Man
(1973), which starred
Charles Durning
and
Julie Harris
;
Da
(1978); and
A Life
(1980).
[6]
Of these,
Da
, which originated off-off-Broadway at the
Hudson Guild Theatre
before transferring to the
Morosco Theatre
, was the most successful, running for 20 months and 697 performances, then touring the United States for ten months.
[7]
It earned Leonard both a
Tony Award
and a
Drama Desk Award
for Best Play.
[8]
It was
made into a film
in 1988, starring
Martin Sheen
and
Barnard Hughes
, who reprised his Tony Award-winning Broadway performance.
[9]
In 1984 Leonard discovered his accountant Russell Murphy had embezzled
IR₤
258,000 from him.
[1]
[4]
Leonard was particularly upset that Murphy had used his money to take clients to the theatre and purchased expensive seats at some of Leonard's plays.
[4]
Leonard wrote two volumes of autobiography,
Home Before Night
(1979) and
Out After Dark
(1989).
[1]
Some of his essays and journalism were collected in
Leonard's Last Book
(1978) and
A Peculiar People and Other Foibles
(1979). In 1992 the
Selected Plays of Hugh Leonard
was published. Until 2006 he wrote a humorous weekly column, "The Curmudgeon", for the Irish
Sunday Independent
newspaper. He had a passion for cats and restaurants, and an abhorrence of broadcaster
Gay Byrne
.
[10]
Even after retiring as a
Sunday Independent
columnist, Leonard displayed an acerbic humour. In an interview with
Brendan O'Connor
, he was asked if it galled him that Gay Byrne was now writing his old column. His reply was, "It would gall me more if he was any good at it."
[10]
Leonard was a patron of the Dublin Theatre Festival.
In 1994, Leonard appeared in a televised interview with
Gerry Adams
, president of
Sinn Féin
, an Irish political party associated with the
Provisional Irish Republican Army
.
[11]
Leonard had long been an opponent of political violence and a critic of the IRA.
[1]
However on the show and afterwards he was criticized for being "sanctimonious and theatrical" towards Adams; at one point he referred to
Sinn Féin
as "dogs".
Hugh Leonard- Odd Man In
, a film on his life and work was shown on RTÉ in March 2009
Leonard died in his hometown,
Dalkey
, aged 82, after a long illness,
[12]
leaving €1.5 million in his will.
[13]
Works
Plays
·
The Big Birthday Suit
(1956)
[14]
·
A Leap in the Dark
(1957)
·
Stephen D
[15]
(1962)
·
The Poker Session
(1964)
·
Mick and Mick
(1966)
·
The Late Arrival of Incoming Aircraft
(1968)
·
The Patrick Pearse Motel
(1971)
·
The Au Pair
Man (1974)
·
Da
(1975)
·
Time Was
(1980)
·
A Life
(1981)
·
Summer
·
Suburb of Babylon
(three one-act plays) (1983)
o
"A Time of Wolves and Tigers"
o
"Nothing Personal"
o
"The Last of the Last of the Mohicans"
·
Pizazz:
(three one-act plays) (1986)
o
"A View from the Obelisk"
o
"Roman Fever"
o
"Pizazz"
·
Moving
(1994)
Novel
·
Parnell and the Englishwoman
(1992)
Essays
·
Rover and Other Cats
(1972)
·
Leonard's Last Book
(1978)
·
A Peculiar People and Other Foibles
(1979)
Autobiography
·
Home Before Night
(1979)
·
Out After Dark
(1989)
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