Featured Work - The Eye of Memory
Thomas Kilroy, Playwright
Tom's piece for LookListen is called "The Eye of Memory" which is an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir. This is a wonderful story of how an eye operation had a startling effect on his memory, causing him to reinvent and reconstruct past memories of growing up in a small Irish town in between the second world war and 1960's.
Thomas Kilroy was born in Callan, Co Kilkenny in 1943. He served as play editor at the Abbey in 1977 and was appointed Director of Field Day Theatre Company in 1988. His many awards include the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Heinemann Award for Literature, the AIB Literary Prize and an Irish PEN Award. He was honoured with a special Lifetime Achievement Award at the ESB/Irish Times Theatre Awards in 2004. He lives in County Mayo.
Listen to excerpt of conversation between Thomas Kilroy and LookListen, talking about Blake and the upcoming event "Across the Boundaries" on 29/30 April 2011 in Trinity College Dublin.
See further information for this event on the Oscar Wilde Centre website.
Drawing of Thomas Kilroy by Brian Bourke/The Gallery Press
