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    Hugh Leonard (9 November 1926 – 12 February 2009) was an Irish dramatist, television writer, and essayist. In a career that spanned 50 years, Leonard...
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  • Ward Leonard, inventor Herman Leonard, photographer Hookey Leonard, Scottish professional footballer Hubert Léonard (1819–1890), Belgian violinist Hugh Leonard...
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  • short stories ever written". It was later adapted into a one-act play by Hugh Leonard and into the 1987 film The Dead written by Tony Huston and directed by...
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    Shaw, Jane Emily Herbert, Julius Olsson, Maeve Binchy, Robert Fisk, and Hugh Leonard. The district is named after Dalkey Island, just offshore. The name is...
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  • aired on BBC1 from 1968 to 1971. Starring Milo O'Shea, it was written by Hugh Leonard. Me Mammy first aired as a pilot within the seventh series of the BBC's...
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  • Insurrection is an Irish docudrama written by Hugh Leonard and directed by Michael Garvey and Louis Lentin. It was first broadcast on Telefís Éireann in...
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  • Hugh Leonard Thompson Murphy (2 March 1952 – 16 November 1982) was a Northern Irish loyalist and UVF officer. As leader of the Shankill Butchers gang,...
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  • published two years before his death. It was adapted for the stage by Hugh Leonard in 1965 as The Saints Go Cycling In. The book features a mad scientist...
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    health due to cancer. The Barracks was adapted for the stage in 1969 by Hugh Leonard. His second book, The Dark (1965), tracks the progression of a young...
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  • demolition, were brought to light almost fifty years after his death. Hugh Leonard Mangum was born June 3, 1877, on Main Street in Durham, son of Presley...
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  • (band), a Chicago post-punk band of the 1980s Da (play), a 1978 play by Hugh Leonard Da (film), a 1988 film based on the play Damon Amendolara, American sports...
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    dim-witted Davey. In late 2007, Gleeson played Herbert Pocket in the Hugh Leonard adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations at the Gate Theatre...
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    Theatre Guide. Retrieved 24 December 2016. Irish Playography, Stephen D by Hugh Leonard [1] retrieved 7 July 2013 "A Digital Portrayal of James Joyce's 'Portrait'"...
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  • in And a Nightingale Sang in 1985. She was seen on Broadway in Da by Hugh Leonard. In 2011 she appeared in a play by playwright Teresa Deevy, Temporal...
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    the Reverend Matthew Forte.[citation needed] Leonard maintains a close friendship with House co-star Hugh Laurie. He and Ethan Hawke, his costar in Dead...
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    included "Decomposing Composers" and "Finland". In 1971, he co-wrote, with Hugh Leonard and Terence Feely, the film Percy, which depicts a penis transplant....
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  • furniture shifter. The series was inspired by "The Removals Person" by Hugh Leonard, an episode in the 1971 LWT comedy anthology series, Six Dates With Barker...
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    stepping-stone . . . into the modernist structure of Joyce's mature work". Hugh Leonard adapted six stories as Dublin One, which was staged at the Gate Theatre...
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    and the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009. Other awards include the Hugh Leonard Bursary, the Macaulay Fellowship, the Martin Healy Prize, the Kilkenny...
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  • Percy (1971 film) (category Films with screenplays by Hugh Leonard)
    book of Doctor in the House 15 years earlier. A script was prepared by Hugh Leonard while Thomas and Box filmed Doctor in Trouble. The film was shot at Elstree...
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    years, Leech was in Tom Murphy's The Morning After Optimism and then Hugh Leonard's Da at the Abbey. Leech's breakthrough film performance was in Cowboys...
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    Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956), best known as Sugar Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional...
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  • the 1913 Dublin Lock-out. In 1980, it was adapted into a TV drama by Hugh Leonard for RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster. The novel is an epic, tracing...
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  • Fadden in his play, The Change in Mame Fadden, specifically for Toal. Hugh Leonard also penned characters in his plays A life and Great Big Blonde with...
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  • Philadelphia, Here I Come! and Faith Healer as examples. The play, Da, by Hugh Leonard is another example of a memory play. The term has also been used to describe...
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    played both Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty in The Mask of Moriarty by Hugh Leonard at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. In 1987, Baker played Inspector Goole...
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    Shaw to new works by playwrights including Willis Hall, David Hare, Hugh Leonard and David Mercer. For the BBC and ITV she appeared frequently from the...
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    and clerical child abuse. The Barracks was adapted for the stage by Hugh Leonard for the 1969 Dublin Theatre Festival. Gonzalez, Alexander G., 1997, Modern...
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  • Da is a 1978 memory play written by Hugh Leonard. The play had its American premiere at the Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland on 7 August 1973. Its...
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  • Widows' Peak (category Films with screenplays by Hugh Leonard)
    Dunbar and Jim Broadbent. The film is based on an original screenplay by Hugh Leonard and Tim Hayes. In the 1920s, just after the First World War, in a small...
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