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A crucial seek in the life of a grocer's assistant / Thomas Murphy.

By: Murphy, Thomas, 1935-.
Contributor(s): Fallon, Peter, 1951-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Gallery books.Publisher: Dublin : Gallery Books, 1988Description: 83 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0902996762.Subject(s): Drama -- Ireland | Drama -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 822.914
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 822.914 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00096738
Total holds: 0

Originally entitled The Fooleen.

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Thomas Bernard Patrick Murphy was born in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland on February 23, 1935. While working in a sugar factory, he started writing for a local amateur theater group. He studied metalworking at a technical college and taught that subject for a time before moving to London to become a playwright.

His first full-length play, A Whistle in the Dark, premiered in London in 1961. His other plays included Famine, DruidMurphy, The Gigli Concert, Conversations on a Homecoming, and Bailegangaire. He died from heart failure on May 15, 2018 at the age of 83.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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