Eoin Neeson
13 September 1927 - 2 January 2011
Born in Cork in 1927, he was the son of two staunch republicans.
Neeson was a journalist, historian and former director of the Government Information Bureau (GIB). He also was a sometime playwright - he wrote his first play at 11 - and as Donal O'Neill wrote fiction. His adaptation of Ibsen's Enemy of the People was the first full-length play to be broadcast by Telefís Éireann, and he was co-author of The Face of Treason which was staged at the Abbey Theatre in 1965. His novels included Crucible (1987) which featured St Patrick as the central character.