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Austin Clarke

1896 - 1974

Born in Dublin, Clarke was a poet, a playwright and a novelist. In the later part of his life his work became better known principally through the Dolmen Press, who published his Collected Plays (1963) and later single plays, and volumes of poems, culminating in his Collected Poems (1974). With the poet Robert Farren, Clarke founded the Dublin Verse-Speaking Society in 1938. The group presented verse plays and poems at the Peacock Theatre from 1941 to 1944. Clarke was also involved in the Lyric Theatre Company, a group which staged works at the Abbey from 1944, principally in the verse tradition WB Yeats established in the theatre's early years. Notably, the group produced the premiere of George Fitzmaurice's The Dandy Dolls, in 1945.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Black Fast Austin Clarke
Sister Eucharia Austin Clarke
The Flame Austin Clarke
The Hunger Demon (The Son of Learning) Austin Clarke
The Kiss Austin Clarke
The Moment Next to Nothing Austin Clarke
The Plot is Ready Austin Clarke
The Plot Succeeds Austin Clarke
The Second Kiss Austin Clarke
The Viscount of Blarney Austin Clarke

Produced by

Play Title Playwright
The Plot Succeeds Austin Clarke