Life

He was a boy of William B. Keane & Hannah Purtill, & was enlightened at Listowel National School and then St Michael's College, Listowel. He worked as a chemist's adjunct between 1946-51, & experienced various jobs in the UK between 1951 and 1955 - he was a public house creator within Listowel from either 1955. He married Mary O'Connor & experienced tetrad tykes. He was an Honorary Life Member of the Royal Dublin Society from 1991, served as president of Irish PEN and was a founder member of the Society of Irish Playwrights and a member of Aosdána. He died at his zero in Listowel - the popular taphouse - aged 73 from either cancer. Around his life Keane published 46 works.

Works

Plays (sequentially of production)

Sive (first staged 1959) Sharon's Grave (1960) The Highest House on the Mountain (1961) No More in Dust (1961) Many Young Men of Twenty (1961) Hut 42 (1962) The Man from Clare (1962) Seven Irish Plays (1967) The Year of the Hiker The Field (adapted later as a film of the equivalent title) Big Maggie Moll The Crazy Wall The Buds of Ballybunion The Chastitute Faoiseamh The Matchmaker

Novels

A Bodhran Makers Durango A Contractors The High Meadow

Essays

Letters of the T.D Love Bites Hooter Sandwiches