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The Arts Council Playography Na Gaeilge

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Eithne McGuinness

1961 - 2009

Eithne McGuinness was an actor and playwright from Dublin. She graduated with distinction from the MPhil Creative Writing programme at Trinity College Dublin in 2005. Her best known play Typhoid Mary was produced by RTÉ Radio and shortlisted for the PJ O'Connor awards. Plays not listed here include A Glorious Day, set during the 1916 Easter Rising, which was given a public reading at the Peacock Theatre in 2000.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Limbo Eithne McGuinness
Typhoid Mary Eithne McGuinness

Actor

Play Title Playwright
Bé Carna Deirdre Kinahan
Cell Paula Meehan
Native City Paul Mercier
The House of Bernarda Alba Sebastian Barry Federico García Lorca
The Marriage of Figaro Michael West Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
The Miser Alice Coghlan Molière
Typhoid Mary Eithne McGuinness

Director

Play Title Playwright
Limbo Eithne McGuinness

Producer

Play Title Playwright
Limbo Eithne McGuinness
Typhoid Mary Eithne McGuinness