Eugene McCabe


Eugene McCabe is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright and television screenwriter.

Biography

Born to Irish emigrants in Glasgow, Scotland, he moved with his family to Ireland in the early 1940s. He lives on a farm near Lackey Bridge, just outside Clones in County Monaghan.
His play King of the Castle caused a minor scandal when first shown in 1964 and was protested by the League of Decency. McCabe wrote his award-winning trilogy of television plays, consisting of Cancer, Heritage and Siege, because he felt he had to make a statement about the Troubles. His 1992 novel Death and Nightingales has been called by Irish writer Colm Tóibín "one of the great Irish masterpieces of the century" and a "classic of our times" by Kirkus Reviews. He defended fellow novelist Dermot Healy by attacking a reviewer of his book, Eileen Battersby, in The Irish Times in 2011, using the Joycean cloacal invective "shite and onions", causing considerable controversy in the Irish literary community.

List of works

;Plays
;Television plays
;Novel
;Novella
;Short story collections
;Children's books
;Non-fiction