Tony-award winning playwright and author dies
"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."
In another blow to the country and the arts in general, Hugh Leonard died today, aged 82.
Like Flann O'Brien, the name was simply a pseudonym, adopted to avoid the frowns and pursed lips of a cantankerous 1950s Civil Service. But unlike his colleague, Leonard would go on to be enormously prolific in the theatre, with three of his plays going on Broadway.
His most famous, 'Da', ran for a staggering 20 months and earned him a Tony award and a movie deal. And best of all for us here back on the old sod, it earned him a Sindo column from which he could pour scorn on just about everything. Rest in peace.
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