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James McKenna

1933 - 2000

Born in Dublin, McKenna studied in NCAD in the early 1950s. He was founder of the Sculptors Institute and co-founder of Independent Artists. McKenna won the Macaulay Fellowship in sculpture in 1960. He established the Rising Ground Drama Group which produced several plays including At Bantry (Peacock 1967). His plays include The Scatterin’, The Battering Ram (1976) and A Dance of Time (1979).

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Play Title	Playwright
At Bantry	James McKenna
The Scatterin'	James McKenna

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Play Title	Playwright
At Bantry	James McKenna

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Play Title	Playwright
At Bantry	James McKenna

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Carmel Winters, Enda Walsh, Iseult Golden, Sarah Hanly, John Connors, Shane O'Reilly, Nancy Harris, Owen McCafferty, Frank McGuinness, Feli Speaks, Gina Moxley, Abbie Spallen, Michael West, Shaun Dunne, Manchán Magan, Eva O'Connor, Edna O'Brien, Aoife Martyn, Arthur Riordan, Andrea Molino, John O'Donovan (2), Deirdre Kinahan, Zoe Ní Riordáin, Karen Cogan, Jimmy Murphy, Ursula Rani Sarma, Zhu Yi, Pom Boyd, Stacey Gregg, Thomas Kane Byrne, Sinéad Burke, Dermot Bolger, Carys D. Coburn, Meadhbh McHugh, Colm Keegan (2), Phillip McMahon, Darach Mac Con Iomaire, Sonya Kelly, Margaret Perry, Joseph O'Connor (1), Kit de Waal, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, Keith James Walker, Mark O'Halloran, Una McKevitt, Blindboy Boatclub, Emmet Kirwan, Rosaleen McDonagh, David Ireland, Jody O'Neill
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Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

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