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Profile of Hugh Leonard
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Hugh Leonard |
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9th November 1926 |
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Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland |
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Writer |
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Hugh Leonard (real name John Keyes Byrne) (born 1926) is an Irish dramatist and journalist. His first play, The Big Birthday Suit, was produced by the Abbey Theatre in 1956. Since then, he has been a prolific playwright, with at least 18 plays to his name. His Selected Plays of Hugh Leonard appeared in 1992. He has also written two volumes of autobiography, Home Before Night (1979) and Out After Dark (1989). Some of his essays and journalism are collected in Leonard's Last Book (1978) and A Peculiar People and Other Foibles (1979).
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