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About the Author

Playwright and journalist Hugh Leonard was born John Keyes Byrne on November 9, 1926. While working in the civil service during the 1950s, he started using the pseudonym Hugh Leonard because he feared his employers would frown on his writing. He wrote numerous plays during his lifetime including show more Stephen D., The Poker Session, The Patrick Pearse Motel, and Da, which was on Broadway for almost two years. Leonard earned a Tony Award in 1977 for Da. He wrote two autobiographies, Home Before Night (1979) and Out after Dark (1989); adapted numerous classic novels for British television, including Nicholas Nickleby and Wuthering Heights, and wrote The Curmudgeon column for the Sunday Independent. He died after a long illness on February 12, 2009 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Sherlock Holmes TV Series [Peter Cushing]

Works by Hugh Leonard

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Da (1605) 95 copies

Home Before Night (1979) 73 copies

Out After Dark (1989) 38 copies

Parnell and the Englishwoman (1990) 32 copies

A Life (1980) 29 copies

A Wild People (2001) 18 copies

Rover and Other Cats (1992) 18 copies

Widow's Peak [1994 film] (1996) — Screenwriter — 13 copies

Stephen D. : a play in two acts (1688) 13 copies

The Au Pair Man (1900) 10 copies

The Hound of the Baskervilles [1968 TV episode] (1968) — Screenwriter; Dramatised by — 9 copies

Wuthering Heights [1967 TV mini-series] (2009) — Screenwriter — 9 copies

Wuthering Heights [1978 TV mini series] — Screenwriter — 7 copies

Selected Plays of Hugh Leonard (Irish Drama Selections 9) (1992) 6 copies

Dear Paule (2000) 6 copies

Fillums (2004) 5 copies

Summer (1979) 4 copies

Da ; A life ; and Time was (1981) 4 copies

Patrick Pearse Motel (Acting Edition) (1972) 4 copies

Leonard's log (1987) 3 copies

Strumpet City [DVD] [1980] — Screenwriter — 3 copies

Leonard's last book 3 copies

The poker session,: A play (1964) 3 copies

Rare DA A Play by Hugh Leonard / 1978 - New York: Atheneum, 1978 [Hardcover] Leonard, Hugh 2 copies

A peculiar People and Other Foibles 2 copies

Love in the Title (2000) 2 copies

Moving (1994) 2 copies

Pizzazz (1986) 2 copies

Leonard's Log --- Again (1988) 1 copy

Leonard's Year (1985) 1 copy

Great Expectations: Play (Acting Edition) (1998) 1 copy

Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft: Play (1968) 1 copy

The Mask of Moriarty (A Play) (1987) 1 copy

"Miss Julie" - second review of the 1966 The National Theatre production of Miss Julie (included in Stages of Drama) 1 copy

Chamber Music 1 copy

"DA" - PLAYBILL - AUGUST 1979 (1979) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Penguin Book of Irish Comic Writing (1996) — Author, some editions — 26 copies

Best Plays of the Seventies (1980) — Contributor — 12 copies

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Legal name: Byrne, John Keyes (born)
Other names: Leonard, Hugh
Curmudgeon
Byrne, John Joseph
Birthdate: 1926-11-09
Date of death: 2009-02-12
Gender: male
Nationality: Ireland
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Places of residence: Dublin, Ireland (birth)
Dalkey, Ireland (death)
Manchester, England, UK
Education: Presentation College, Glasthule
Occupations: playwright
screenwriter
civil servant
columnist

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Out After Dark by Hugh Leonard

This is the book behind the movie and play, "Da."

A wonderful book about life in the Irish countryside. You will fall in love with the finely fleshed characters of Hugh Leonard's well-crafted book.

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phacht | Jul 1, 2011 |

Patrick Pearse Motel (Acting Edition) by Hugh Leonard

Representing Ireland in my slow-moving project to read a book from every country in the world is dramatist Hugh Leonard. I’d previously read the depressing and close-to-home Da. This play is very different part satire of Irish memory, part satire of nouveaux riche in Ireland, but mostly farce. Almost on the Three’s Company level of people walking in on one another and assuming the worst. Still very funny though, and it hits its point, although the play seems a bit dated.

½

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Othemts | Jun 25, 2008 |