Tom MacIntyre

Tom MacIntyre (born 1931 in Cavan) is an Irish poet, playwright and writer. He grew up in Bailieborough with his four siblings, and briefly worked as a pharmaceutical chemist, before deciding to write.

Among his works are the poetry books Blood Relations: Versions of Gaelic Poems of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1972), A Glance Will Tell You and A Dream (1994), Stories of the Wandering Moon (2000), and the plays The Great Hunger, directed by Patrick Mason at the Abbey Theatre of Dublin in 1983-6, Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (1998) (winner of the Stewart Parker Prize), The Midnight Court (1999); and The Gallant John-Joe (2001), which won The Irish Times/ ESB Irish Theatre Best New Play Award in 2002.^[1] He is a member of the New Writers Press and Aosdána.

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