Patrick McCabe

McCabe’s books include The Butcher Boy (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (1998), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize.[2] He has written a children’s book (The Adventures of Shay Mouse) and several of his radio plays have been broadcast by RTÉ and BBC Radio 4. He wrote a collection of linked short stories, Mondo Desperado, published in 1999. The play Frank Pig Says Hello, which he adapted from The Butcher Boy, was first performed at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1992 and of course his singles ‘Swimming Pool’ and ‘Ballad of Audrey Dash’ and residences at The Bridge Mall Inn and the Mallow Hotel.[3]

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