Tag: Frank McGuinness

Frank McGuinness: Celebrating the Irish Playwright Behind Observe the Sons of Ulster

Born on July 29, 1953, Frank McGuinness has spent more than four decades creating plays about people caught between loyalties: family and independence, faith and doubt, nationalism and friendship, memory and survival, public identity and private desire. The Irish playwright, poet, novelist, screenwriter, and adapter first attracted major attention with The Factory Girls, a 1982 …

Continue reading