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Tom Murphy (playwright)
Irish dramatist (1935–2018)
This article is about the Irish playwright. For the Australian playwright, see Tommy Murphy (Australian playwright).
Tom Murphy (23 February 1935 – 15 May 2018) was an Irish dramatist who worked closely with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and with Druid Theatre, Galway.
He was born in County Galway, Ireland and later lived in Dublin.
Murphy's first successful play, A Whistle in the Dark, was performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London in 1961 and caused considerable controversy both there and in Dublin when it was later given its Irish premiere at the Abbey having initially been rejected by its artistic director.
Life
Murphy was born in Tuam, County Galway, the youngest of ten children.[1] His elder siblings gradually emigrated to Birmingham until he was left alone with his mother.[2] He played at centre half back for the Galway Vocational Schools Gaelic football team in the early 1950s.