Marion McKeone, The Sunday Business Post
PATRICK MCCABE was born in Clones, Country Monaghan, Ireland in 1955. He has published a children’s story, The Adventures of Shay Mouse (1985), and several adult novels, including The Butcher Boy (1992), which was the winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize and shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, and The Dead School (1995). His play, Frank Pig Says Hello, based on The Butcher Boy, was first performed at the Dublin Festival in 1992, and he co-wrote the screenplay for Neil Jordan’s highly acclaimed film of the book (The Butcher Boy, released in 1998). He was closely involved with the filming of Breakfast on Pluto. McCabe lives in Sligo with his wife and two daughters.
ALSO BY PATRICK MCCABE
FICTION
Music on Clinton Street
Carn
The Dead School
Breakfast on Pluto
Mondo Desperado
Emerald Germs of Ireland
Emerald Germs of Ireland
Call Me the Breeze
PLAYS
Frank Pig Says Hello
(based on The Butcher Boy)
The Dead School
Loco County Lonesome
CHILDREN’S STORIES
The Adventures of Shay Mouse
First published 1998 by Picador
First published in paperback 1999 by Picador
This edition published 2006 by Picador
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