Thomas
Kilroy was born in 1934 in County Kilkenny and now lives in County
Mayo. His novel, The Big Chapel, was shortlisted for the
Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the
Heinemann Award.
The
Gallery Press is publishing all his plays. The Death and Resurrection
of Mr Roche, Double Cross, Ghosts (after Ibsen), The O'Neill,
The Seagull (after Chekhov), The Secret Fall of Constance
Wilde, Talbot's Box, Tea and Sex and Shakespeare, The Shape of Metal, My Scandalous Life and Pirandellos (December 2007) are available.
In 2004 Thomas Kilroy received the Irish Times/ESB 'Lifetime Achievement' Award.