Background
McCabe, Patrick was born on March 27, 1955 in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland. Son of Bernard and Dympna (Maguire) McCabe.
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Patrick McCabe, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called "one of the most brilliant writers ever to come out of Ireland," presents another compelling novel of small-town Ireland that leaves its indelible mark on the canon of classic fiction. Carn is the story of two women; Josie Keenan, who returns to Carn, Ireland, the provincial hometown she once left behind, and Sadie Rooney, a factory worker who dreams of leaving. As the two women strike up a friendship--fueled by hopes to better their lives, yet inextricably tied to the tenuous fate of Carn--each must confront the hard truths of her past and future. And despite its own attempt to thrive, the town itself cannot escape the daily reminders of Ireland's endless legacy of violence and unrest. Written in the raw, unsparing prose that marks McCabe's fiction, Carn is the timeless story of a small town struggling to break away from its bleak past, and the lives of two women aching to escape the forces that shaped them.
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McCabe, Patrick was born on March 27, 1955 in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland. Son of Bernard and Dympna (Maguire) McCabe.
Student, St. Patrick's Training College, Dublin, Ireland, 1971-1974.
He has written a children"s book (The Adventures of Shay Mouse) and several of his radio plays have been broadcast by RTÉ and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4. He wrote a collection of linked short stories, Mondo Desperado, published in 1999. The play Frank Pig Says Hello, which he adapted from The Butcher Boy, was first performed at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1992 and of course his singles "Swimming Pool" and "Ballad of Audrey Dash" and residences at The Bridge Mall Inn and the Mallow Hotel.
McCabe"s 2001 novel Emerald Germs of Ireland is a black comedy featuring matricide.
Winterwood, was published in 2006, and went on to become the 2007 Hughes & Hughes/Irish Independent Irish Novel of the Year. 2009 saw the publication of The Holy City.
The Stray Sod Country—his most recent novel— was described as "Strangely elegiac, gloriously operatic and driven by Patrick McCabe"s wild and savage imagination, the "Stray Sod Country" is an eerie folk tale that chronicles the passing of a generation."
The director and novelist Neil Jordan has adapted both The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto into films. Zelig Theatre premiered the play Appointment in Limbo, written by McCabe, in Galway"s Town Hall Theatre in 2008.
Cathal Cleary directed.
McCabe and film director Kevin Allen are organisers of the Flatlake Festival a music festival held annually.
(Patrick McCabe, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called "...)
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Married Margot Quinn, December 1981. Children: Ellen, Katy.