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Tom Coffey

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Tom Coffey worked as a schoolteacher and in industry before writing plays for the Abbey and the Lyric. He also wrote many episodes of the RTE drama serial, 'The Riordans'.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title	Playwright
Anyone Could Rob A Bank	Tom Coffey
Gone Tomorrow	Tom Coffey
It Would Be Funny...	Tom Coffey
Stranger Beware	Tom Coffey
The Call	Tom Coffey
The Long Sorrow	Tom Coffey
Them	Tom Coffey

Lyrics by

Play Title	Playwright
An Sciath Draíochta	Tomás Mac Anna Luaitear freisin Tom Coffey, Edward Golden, Antoine de Buitléar agus Earnán de Blaghd mar údair.

Premiered In 2023

Ghosts

Freefalling

The Loved Ones

Curvy Figures

Country and Irish

Premiered on this day

Boss Grady's Boys

Premiered 22 Aug 1988

Playwright
Sebastian Barry
Company
Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

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