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Hugh Leonard. 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 nearly 30 full-length plays, 10 one-act plays, three volumes of essay, two autobiographies, three novels, numerous screenplays and teleplays, and a regular newspaper column.
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Feb 13, 2009 · Feb. 12, 2009. Hugh Leonard, the prolific Irish playwright, memoirist, travel writer and dyspeptic newspaper columnist whose autobiographical play “Da” won four Tony Awards in 1978, including ...
Feb 13, 2009 · Thu 12 Feb 2009 19.01 EST. For a time, in the mid- to late 1970s, Hugh Leonard (a pseudonym for John Keyes Byrne), who has died aged 82, was hailed as the best living Irish dramatist. He was ...
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Feb 13, 2009 · He took the pen name Hugh Leonard in the arch-conservative Catholic Ireland of the 1950s to hide his double life as an aspiring, outspoken writer from his Irish civil service employers. He quit ...
Feb 12, 2009 · Irish playwright and commentator Hugh Leonard, who won a Tony Award in 1978 for his bittersweet father-and-son drama "Da," died Thursday. He was 82 and had been hospitalized for more than a year ...
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Feb 13, 2009 · Hugh Leonard: The obituary of Irish playwright Hugh Leonard in the California section Feb. 13 identified his second wife as Kathy Bateson. She is Kathy Hayes. The article also said the couple wed ...
Hugh Leonard. Hugh Leonard – who was the first Irish playwright to win a Tony Award and who wrote prolifically for the stage, television, big screen, and books and print media – was born in Dublin in 1926 and grew up in the small seaside town of Dalkey. He claimed to have written his first play at the age of eight or nine.
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