John McDonnell (playwright)

Austin McDonnell was an Irish playwright and journalist.[1]

McDonnell worked as a television critic on The Sunday Press.[2] As a playwright his work is most closely associated with the Ulster Group Theatre, Belfast, where he wrote a string of successful comedy plays in the 1960s and 1970s in association with the actor and comedian James Young.[3]

  1. ^ "John McDonnell". Irish Playography. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  2. ^ "John McDonnell Image Archive". RTÉ. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  3. ^ Odling-Smee, Hugh; Group Theatre (Belfast, Northern Ireland), eds. (2009). Group plays 1: seven comedies. Belfast: Lagan Press. ISBN 978-1-904652-31-1.