Thomas Kilroy

Awards and honours

• 2008 Irish PEN Award

  Plays

• The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche, The Dublin Theatre Festival, 1968. Published by Faber & Faber, Grove Press, 1968;
• The O'Neill, The Peacock Theatre, Dublin, 1969. Published by The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, Co Meath, 1995;
• Talbot's Box, The Peacock, 1973. Published by The Gallery Press/Delaware, Proscenium Press, 1979;
• Sex and Shakespheare, The Abbey, 1976. Revised edition published by The Gallery Press, 1998;
• ', Field Day Theatre Company, 1986. Published by Faber & Faber, 1986. Translated into French as Double jeu by Alexandra Poulain, 1996;
• ', The Field Day Theatre Company, 1992. Published by Methuen, 1992;
• The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, The Abbey, 1997 and Melbourne Festival 1998. Published by The Gallery Press, 1997;
• Blake, 2001. Published by The Gallery Press, 2015;
• The Shape of Metal, The Peacock, 2003. Published by The Gallery Press;
• My Scandalous Life, 2004. Published by The Gallery Press;
• Christ Deliver Us!, 2010, Abbey Theatre.

  Adaptations

• The Seagull, The Royal Court, London, 1981. Published by Eyre Methuen, 1981;
• Ghosts, The Peacock Theatre, Dublin, 1989;
• Six Characters in Search of an Author The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1996.

  Books

• The Big Chapel, Faber & Faber, 1971; Liberties Press, 2009. This novel was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize, 1971 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
• Sean O'Casey: a Collection of Critical Essays, Ed., Prentice Hall, 1975,

  Pieces for Radio

• The Door, BBC Radio 4, 27 October 1967;
• That Man Bracken, BBC Radio 3, 20 June 1986;
• The Colleen and the Cowboy, RTÉ Radio, Prod. Kate Minogue, 11 September 2005.

  Pieces for Television

• Farmers, Radio Telefís Éireann, 1978;
• Gold in the Streets, 1993;
• The Black Joker.

  Academic Works

• Satirical elements in the prose of Thomas Nashe. Thesis, University College Dublin, 1959.
• The Outsider., The Irish Times 16 April 1971.
• Synge and Modernism., in J. M. Synge Centenary Papers. 1971. Ed. Maurice Harmon. Dublin. Dolmen Press, 1972. 167–79.
• Synge the Dramatist., Mosaic 5.1 : 9–16.
• Tellers of Tales., Times Literary Supplement. 17 March 1972: 301–02.
• The Writer’s Group in Galway., The Irish Times. 8 April 1976.
• Two Playwrights: Yeats and Beckett., Myth and Reality in Irish Literature. Ed. Joseph Ronsley. Toronto: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1977. 183–95.
• The Moon and the Yellow River : Denis Johnson’s Shavianism., Denis Johnson : A Retrospective. Joseph Ronsley Ed. Irish Literary Studies 8. Gerrards Cross, Bucks : Colin Smythe, 1981 ; Totawa, New Jersey : Barnes and Noble, 1982. 49 – 58.
• The Irish Writer: Self and Society, 1950–1980., Literature and the Changing Ireland. Irish Literary Studies 9. Ed. Peter Connolly. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1982. 175–87.
• The Anglo-Irish., The Irish Times. 7 December 1983.
• Goldsmith the Playwright., Goldsmith, the Gentle Master. Ed. Sean Lucy. Cork: Cork University Press, 1984. 66–77.
• Brecht, Beckett, and Williams., Sagetrieb 3.2 : 81–87.
• The Autobiographical Novel., The Genius of Irish Prose. Augustine Martin Ed. Thomas Davis Lecture Series. Dublin : Mercier Press in collaboration with Radio Telefís Éireann, 1985. 65–75.
• Ireland’s Pseudo-Englishman. , Magill 11.5 January 1988 : 52–54.
• Reassessment. Thomas Kilroy on J.M. Synge : The Complex Creator of a Closed World., The Irish Times 29 April 1989.
• Secularized Ireland., Culture in Ireland : Division and Diversity ? Proceedings of the Cultures of Ireland Group Conference, 27–28 September 1991. Ed. Edna Longley. Belfast : Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast, 1991. 135 – 141.
• Theatrical Text and Literary Text., The Achievement of Brian Friel. Ed. Alan J. Peacock. Gerrard's Cross: Bucks, Colin Smythe, 1993. 91–102.
• Some Irish Poems of Yeats,, Eibei-Bungaku. Koka Women's University, 11.3 : 41 – 53.
• The Literary Tradition of Irish Drama., Anglistentag 1994 graz : Proceedings. W. Rioehle, H. Keiper edc. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 1995. 7 – 15.
• John Bull’s Other Island : Shaw’s Irish Play. , Banado Sho Kenkyu. Vol. 3, 1995, 11.1 1–20.
• Chekhov and the Irish., Program Note. Chekhov's Uncle Vanya adapt. Frank McGuinness. Field Day Theatre Company. 1995.
• From Page to Stage., Irish Writers and Their Creative Process. Ed. Jacqueline Genet and Wynne Hellegouarc’h. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1996. 55–62.
• The Anglo-Irish Theatrical Imagination., Bullan, an Irish Studies journal 3.2, 5 – 12.
• The Seagull, an Adaptation., The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov. Ed. Vera Gottlieg and Paul Allain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 80–90.
• The Wildean Triangle., What Revels Are in Hand ? Assessment of Contemporary Drama in English in Honor of W. Lippke. B. Reitz, H. Stahl, eds.
• Contemporary Drama in English., 8 Trier : WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2001. 47 – 55.

  Unpublished

• Dreaming House, a Play about George Moore, 1990.

  Works about Thomas Kilroy

• Le théâtre de Thomas Kilroy., Thierry Dubost, Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2001, English edition The Plays of Thomas Kilroy: A Critical Study, McFarland, 2007

• Awards

• Guardian Fiction Prize, 1971;
• Heinemann Award for Literature;
• AIB Literary Prize;
• American-Irish Foundation Award for Literature;
• Rockefeller Foundation Residency;
• Kyoto University Foundation Fellowship;
• Prix Nikki Special Commendation;
• Lifetime Achievement, Irish Times / ESB Theatre Award, 2004.