Maurice Kennedy

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Maurice Kennedy was born in in Youghal on December 30th 1924, the middle one of three children. Educated by the Christian Brothers in Limerick, he won several scholarships, including one to Cork University. After two years there reading science he lost interest and dropped out on, receiving the offer of appointment as a Junior Executive Officer in the Department of Revenue. He worked in Dublin as an Examiner of Estate Duties until his retirement in 1986.

Throughout his early life as a civil servant he was also a successful freelance writer, his short stories being particularly well known and widely translated. Throughout the ‘fifties and ‘sixties he was a regular contributor as literary and drama critic to The Irish Times, The Irish Press and to literary periodicals of the time. In the mid ‘fifties he edited and presented a programme called Plays of the Week for RTE radio.

Kennedy married Val Mulkerns in 1953. Their children Maev, Conor, and Myles have all collaborated in the assembly of this book, which represents a small selection of his work.