Eoin McNamee
Eoin McNamee | |
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Born | 1961 Kilkeel, Northern Ireland |
Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter |
Language | English |
Genre | Crime, Thriller |
Notable works | Resurrection Man; The Blue Tango |
Eoin McNamee (1961 in Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a writer of novels and screenplays.[1]
Career
McNamee studied at Trinity College Dublin and then worked in various occupations besides being a full-time writer. He has taught at the Sligo Institute of Technology and at Maynooth University. He is Director of the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre and Director of the M.Phil. in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin.[2] He lives in County Sligo.
Works
McNamee has written nineteen novels and six Young Adult novels. He has also written three thrillers under the John Creed pseudonym.
His novels include:
- Resurrection Man (London, Picador, 1994), which detailed the bloodletting of the Ulster Volunteer Force gang, the Shankill Butchers
- Booker-nominated The Blue Tango (London, Faber & Faber, 2001), which examined the murder of Lancelot Curran's 19-year-old daughter, Patricia Curran
- The Ultras (Faber & Faber, 2004), about the killing of Robert Nairac
- 12:23, based on the final days of Diana, Princess of Wales (Faber & Faber, June 2007)
- Orchid Blue (Faber & Faber, 2010), which looked at the last hanging in Ireland, in Crumlin Road gaol, of Robert McGladdery for the murder of 19-year-old Pearl Gamble, near Newry, in 1961
- Blue Is the Night (published in 2014), which deals with the involvement of Lancelot Curran in a murder trial in the Northern Ireland of the late 1940s. Blue Is the Night won the 2015 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year.[3]
He has written two novellas:
- The Last of Deeds (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1989), which was shortlisted for the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award for Irish Literature,
- Love in History (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1992).[4]
He has also written the Navigator trilogy, for children, The Navigator, City of Time and The Frost Child. McNamee commenced writing another series for children, the first book of which is The Ring of Five, and the second of which is The Unknown Spy, both of which are based on plotting and espionage.
He has also written a series under the pseudonym John Creed:[5]
- The Sirius Crossing
- The Day of the Dead
- Black Cat Black Dog.
These feature the character of intelligence officer Jack Valentine.
Screenwriting
The film version of Resurrection Man, for which he wrote the script, was released in 1998. That same year, McNamee also wrote the script for I Want You, a crime film directed by Michael Winterbottom.
He has written for the television series An Bronntanas, Red Rock, Hinterland and the Netflix series Vikings: Valhalla.[6]
Awards
He was awarded the Macauley Fellowship for Irish Literature in 1990. In 2010, he won the Richard Imison Award for radio drama. In 2015, he won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award for Blue is the Night. In 2002, writing as John Creed he won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for The Sirius Crossing.[7]
References
- ^ Philip Casey. "McNamee, Eoin - Irish Writers Online". Irish Writers Online. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "Eoin McNamee B.A. (T.C.D.)". Trinicty College Dublin. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- ^ Martin Doyle (27 May 2015). "Eoin McNamee's Blue is the Night wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of Year Award". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ Bruce Stewart. "Eoin McNamee – Life Works Criticism Commentary Quotations References Notes". Ricorso: A Knowledge of Irish Literature. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "John Creed". Fantasticfiction.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
- ^ "Netflix's 'Vikings' Sequel Spinoff Confirms its Cast". 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Eoin McNamee B.A. (T.C.D.)". Trinicty College Dublin. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
External links
- Eoin McNamee at IMDb