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), My Scandalous Life, The O'Neill, The Seagull (after Chekhov), The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, The Shape of Metal, Talbot’s Box, Tea and Sex and Shakespeare, Pirandellos (Two Plays) and Christ Deliver Us! (2010) are also available.
Winner of the 2008 Irish PEN/A T Cross Award for Literature, Thomas Kilroy received The Irish Times/ESB ‘Lifetime Achievement’ Award in 2004.
