Frank McGuinness

Frank McGuinness was born in County Donegal and now lives in Dublin. His plays include The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Mutabilitie, Gates of Gold and There Came a Gypsy Riding. Speaking Like Magpies premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon, in 2005. McGuinness has also written award-winning plays for television and has adapted works of Lorca, Chekhov, Brecht, Strindberg, Pirandello and Sophocles. His version of Ibsen's A Doll's House won a Tony award in 1997. McGuiness's first collection of poetry, Booterstown, was published in 1995, and was followed by The Sea With No Ships (1999). He is Professor of Creative Writing in University College Dublin and a member of Aosdána.