Eugene Vincent McCABE

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, 7 July 1930. Educated at Castleknock College, Dublin; University College, Cork, B.A. 1953. Married Margot Bowen in 1955; one daughter and three sons.

Stage Works

1. The King of the Castle (produced 1964)
2. Breakdown (produced 1966).
3. Pull Down a Horseman (produced 1966)
4. Swift (produced 1969)
5. Victims (trilogy; includes Cancer, Heritage, Victims), adaptation of his own fiction (televised 1976; produced 1981).
6. Cancer published 1980.
7. Roma, adaptation of his own story (televised 1979)
8. Gale Day (televised 1979; produced 1979)

TELEVISION PLAYS:

1. A Matter of Conscience, 1962;
2. Some Women on the Island, 1966;
3. The Funeral, 1969;
4. Victims (trilogy), 1976;
5. Roma, 1979;
6. Gale Day, 1979;
7. Music at Annahullion, from his own short story, 1982;
8. The Year of the French, with Pierre Lary, from the novel by Thomas Flanagan, 1983.

NOVELS

• Victims: Tales From Fermanagh. 1976
• Death and Nightingales. 1992

SHORT STORIES

• Heritage and other Stories. 1978
• Christ in the Fields. 1993

OTHER

Cyril: The Quest of an Orphaned Squirrel (for children) 1986