biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1950– )
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| biography:
| Film maker and writer, born in Co Sligo, W Ireland. He studied at University College, Dublin, and helped form the Irish Writers Co-operative (1974). His first collection of stories, Night in Tunisia (1976), was followed by the acclaimed novels The Past (1980) and The Dreams of the Beast (1983). He worked as a script consultant on Excalibur (1981), made his directorial debut with the thriller Angel (1982), and has boldly emphasized the fairy-tale and fantasy elements of such challenging works as The Company of Wolves (1984) and Mona Lisa (1986). He then turned his hand to comedy with High Spirits (1988) and We're No Angels (1989). Later films include his study of the legendary Irish patriot Michael Collins (1996), The Butcher Boy (1998), and a screen adaptation of the novel by Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1999). |
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