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He left Armagh to study at Queen"s University, where he completed a degree in Philosophy and Russian studies before subsequently obtaining an Master of Arts in Poetry.
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Terry Cafolla
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Terry Cafolla is an award-winning Northern Irish screenwriter. After leaving college, following a short spell on a media-training course, Cafolla secured a one-year contract with a Belfast film collective. Cafolla himself cites the fact that both poetry and American television drama had a large influence over him in his adolescence, despite the fact that "television never seemed an option for somebody from Armagh".
His first television drama Holy Cross (2003) examined the emotive events which occurred on Belfast’s Ardoyne Road in 2001 and signalled the emergence of a television writer of skill and sensitivity.
Cafolla has since contributed to the television drama Messiah and has written episodes for both series of Law & Order: United Kingdom, a British adaptation of the long-running United States crime series. Other notable work includes a drama-documentary on the life of George Best, and an episode of the television fantasy series, Camelot.
He wrote The Whale, a television film that will air on British Broadcasting Corporation One in 2014.
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