Hugh Leonard
Irish dramatist. Pseudonym for John Keyes Byrne. Born in Dublin, 9 November 1926
Stage Works
- The Italian Road (produced 1954).
- The Big Birthday (produced 1956).
- A Leap in the Dark (produced 1957).
- Madigan's Lock (produced 1958).
- A Walk on the Water (produced 1960).
- The Passion of Peter Ginty, adaptation of the play Peer Gynt by Ibsen (produced 1961).
- Stephen D, adaptation of the works A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Stephen Hero by James Joyce (produced 1962)
- Dublin One, adaptation of the stories Dubliners by James Joyce (produced 1963).
- The Poker Session (produced 1963)
- The Family Way, adaptation of a play by Eugène Labiche (produced 1964).
- The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft (televised 1964)
- A View from the Obelisk (televised 1964; produced 1983)
- The Saints Go Cycling In, adaptation of the novel The Dalkey Archives by Flann O'Brien (produced 1965)
- Mick and Mick (produced 1966; as All the Nice People, produced 1976)
- A Time of Wolves and Tigers (televised 1967)
- The Quick, and The Dead (produced 1967).
- The Au Pair Man (produced 1968)
- The Barracks, adaptation of the novel by John McGahern (produced 1969).
- The Patrick Pearse Motel (produced 1971)
- Da (produced 1973) revised version, 1978.
- Summer (produced 1974). 1979.
- Suburb of Babylon (as Irishmen, produced 1975)
- Some of My Best Friends Are Husbands, adaptation of a play by Eugène Labiche (produced 1976).
- Liam Liar, adaptation of the play Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall (produced 1976).
- Time Was (produced 1976).
- A Life (produced 1979)
- Kill (produced 1982).
- Pizzazz (produced 1983)
- Scorpions (produced 1983).
- The Mask of Moriarty, based on characters by Arthur Conan Doyle (produced 1985).
- Moving (produced 1992).
SCREENPLAYS:
- Great Catherine, 1967;
- Interlude, with Lee Langley, 1967;
- Whirligig, 1970;
- Percy, with Terence Feely, 1970;
- Our Miss Fred, 1972;
- Widows' Peak, 1986;
- Da, 1989.
RADIO PLAYS:
The Kennedys of Castleross series.
TELEVISION PLAYS:
- The Irish Boys (trilogy), 1962;
- Saki series, 1962;
- A Kind of Kingdom, 1963;
- Jezebel Ex-UK series, 1963;
- The Second Wall, 1964;
- A Triple Irish, 1964;
- Realm of Error, 1964;
- My One True Love, 1964;
- The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft, 1964;
- Do You Play Requests?, 1964;
- A View from the Obelisk, 1964;
- The Hidden Truth series, 1964;
- Undermind series, 1964;
- I Loved You Last Summer, 1965;
- Great Big Blond, 1965;
- Blackmail series, 1965;
- Public Eye series, 1965;
- Simenon series: The Lodger and The Judge, 1966;
- Insurrection (8 parts), 1966;
- Second Childhood, 1966;
- The Retreat, 1966;
- Silent Song, from a story by Frank O'Connor, 1966;
- The Liars series, 1966;
- The Informer series, 1966;
- Out of the Unknown series, 1966-67;
- A Time of Wolves and Tigers, 1967;
- Love Life, 1967;
- Great Expectations (serialisation), from the novel by Dickens, 1967;
- Wuthering Heights (serialisation), from the novel by Emily Brontë, 1967;
- No Such Things as a Vampire, 1968;
- The Corpse Can't Play, 1968;
- A Man and His Mother-in-Law, 1968;
- Assassin, 1968;
- Nicholas Nickleby (serialisation), from the novel by Dickens, 1968;
- Conan Doyle series: A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1968;
- Hunt the Peacock, from a novel by H.R.F. Keating, 1969;
- Talk of Angels, 1969;
- The Possessed (serialisation), from a novel by Dostoevsky, 1969;
- Dombey and Son (serialisation), from the novel by Dickens, 1969;
- Somerset Maugham series: P &
- O, 1969, and Jane, 1970;
- A Sentimental Education (serialisation), from a novel by Flaubert, 1970;
- The Sinners series, 1970-71;
- Me Mammy series, 1970-71;
- White Walls and Olive Green Carpets, 1971;
- The Removal Person, 1971;
- Pandora, 1971;
- The Virgins, 1972;
- The Ghost o f Christmas Present, 1972;
- The Truth Game, 1972;
- Tales from the Lazy Acres series, 1972;
- The Moonstone (serialisation), from the novel by Wilkie Collins, 1972;
- The Sullen Sisters, 1972;
- The Watercress Girl, from the story by H.E. Bates, 1972;
- The Higgler, 1973;
- High Kampf, 1973;
- Milo O'Shea, 1973;
- Stone Cold Sober, 1973;
- The Bitter Pill, 1973;
- Another Fine Mess, 1973;
- Judgement Day, 1973;
- The Travelling Woman, 1973;
- The Hammer of God, The Actor and the Alibi, The Eye of Apollo, The Forbidden Garden, The Three Tools of Death, and The Quick One (Father Brown series), 1974;
- London Belongs to Me, from the novel by Norman Collins, 1977;
- Bitter Suite, 1977;
- Teresa, The Fur Coat, and Two o f a Kind, from stories by Sean O'Faolain, 1977;
- The Last Campaign, from the novel The Captains and the Kings by Jennifer Johnston, 1978;
- The Ring and the Rose, 1978;
- Strumpet City, from the novel by James Plunkett, 1980;
- The Little World of Don Camillo, from a novel by Giovanni Guareschi, 1981;
- Good Behaviour, from a work by Molly Keane, 1983;
- O'Neill series, 1983;
- The Irish R.M. series, 1985;
- Hunted Down, from a story by Dickens, 1985;
- Troubles, 1987;
- Parnell and the Englishwoman (serialisation), from his own novel, 1991.
NOVEL
Parnell and the Englishwoman. 1990.
OTHER
Leonard's Last Book (essays). 1978. A Peculiar People and Other Foibles (essays). 1979. Home Before Night: Memoirs of an Irish Time and Place. 1979. Leonard's Year (journalism). 1985. Out After Dark (memoirs). 1989. Rover and Other Cats (memoirs). 1992.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Ten Modern Irish Playwrights by Kimball King, 1979.