Monday the 12th
Patrick McCabe Books and Plays
The Adventures of Shay Mouse Raven Arts Press (Dublin), 1985, Music on Clinton Street Raven Arts Press (Dublin), 1986, Carn Aidan Ellis, 1989, The Butcher Boy Picador, 1992, The Dead School Picador, 1995, Breakfast on Pluto Picador, 1998,Far from the Land: Contemporary Irish Plays (includes Patrick McCabe's 'Frank Pig') Methuen, 1998, Mondo Desperado Picador, 1999, Emerald Germs of Ireland Picador, 2001, Call Me The Breeze Faber and Faber, 2003, Winterwood Bloomsbury, 2006
Patrick McCabe Links
Patrick McCabe - Contemporary Writers
Site http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth69
Playwright and novelist Patrick McCabe was born in 1955 in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland. He was educated at St Patrick's Training College in Dublin and began teaching at Kingsbury Day Special School in London in 1980. His short story 'The Call' won the Irish Press Hennessy Award. He is the author of five novels including The Butcher Boy (1992), a black comedy narrated by a disturbed young slaughterhouse worker, which won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction; The Dead School (1995), an account of the misfortunes that befall two Dublin teachers; and Breakfast on Pluto (1998), the disturbing tale of a transvestite prostitute who becomes involved with Republican terrorists. The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.
Patrick McCabe - Irish Writers Online
Site http://www.irishwriters-online.com/patrickmccabe.html
Patrick McCabe was born in Co Monaghan in 1955. He has published a children's story, The Adventures of Shay Mouse (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1985), and five adult novels: Music On Clinton Street (Raven, 1986); Carna (London, Aidan Ellis, 1989); The Butcher Boy (London, Picador, 1992), which was the winner of The Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize 1992, and was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize; The Dead School (Picador, 1995); Breakfast On Pluto (Picador 1998), which was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize; and Emerald Germs of Ireland (Picador,2000).
Pat Mc Cabe talks to Pat Collins
Site http://www.iol.ie/~galfilm/filmwest/20patmc.htm
The most common supposition concerning Pat Mc Cabe is that people expect him to be a little strange. After all, the creator of The Butcher Boy must have a dark side to him. He seems to have captured the readers' imagination and in so doing has got his personal life and the characters of his books intertwined in the public's mind in a way that few other writers have to contend with. When you actually meet him he's friendly, courteous and probably even ordinary. Only his references to Corman, Hitchcock and general horror/schlock movies give sustenance to the notion that there is, if not a 'macabre' side, at least an offbeat element to his outlook on life.
patrickmccabe.com
Site http://www.patrickmccabe.com/
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Patrick McCabe - HarperCollins
Site http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/13999/Patrick_McCabe/index.aspx
Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1955. His other novels include The Butcher Boy, The Dead School, and Call Me the Breeze. With director Neil Jordan, he co-wrote the screenplay for the film version of The Butcher Boy.
Patrick McCabe - Bloomsbury
Site http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?section=1&id=1244
Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, Co Monaghan, Ireland in 1955. His novels include Carn, The Dead School and The Butcher Boy, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and made into a highly acclaimed film directed by Neil Jordan. Breakfast On Pluto, published in 1998, was also on the Booker Prize shortlist. He lives in Sligo with his wife and two daughters.
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925