Martin Meenan

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name = Martin Meenan


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birthdate = 1959
birthplace = Creggan, Derry, Northern Ireland
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occupation = playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, teacher
genre = drama, satire, fiction, comedy
period = 1990–
influences = William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Romanticism, Surrealism
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Martin Meenan (born 1959), is a playwright, and romantic from Northern Ireland. He currently teaches English Literature at the prestigious grammar and specialist school, St. Columb's College in Derry and his beard is while looking. And he knows it. He has, in the past flirted with homosexuality but nothing ever came of it. badoom cha!

Career

Meenan was born in Creggan, Derry and later lived in various locations around Northern Ireland before leaving to pursue his passions at University. He worked in London for quite some time, then returned to Derry to become a teacher. He cites his first job as window-cleaning, but later went on to write a number of thrilling episodes of "Baldi" for Radio 4. According to BBC Radio polls, Meenan's gripping episodes "captivated the imaginations of listeners". In 1995, he had his script developed into a short film called Everybody's Gone. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0576174/ Martin Meenan at IMDB] ] [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249501/ Everybody's Gone at IMDB] ] After an extended period of relaxation, Meenan triumphantly returned to writing and in 2007, he co-wrote the play, "The Last Ghost Dance" with local personality, comedian and columnist Eddie Kerr. [ [http://www.derryjournal.com/fridays/Friday39s-Child.3439253.jp Derry Journal Friday's Child] retrieved from Derry Journal] When asked in an interview with the Derry Journal, what he would do if he ever won the Lottery, Meenan replied by stating that he would:cquote|"Support struggling writers, actors, painters, poets, dreamers, the poor, the dispossessed and the lonely. And buy a campervan." [ [http://www.derryjournal.com/fridays/Friday39s-Child.3439253.jp Derry Journal Friday's Child] retrieved from Derry Journal] However, it has been said that Meenan himself has described the interview as mere ballyhoo, with the sole purpose of promoting his most recent creation as a writer.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0576174/ Profile at IMDB]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249501/combined Everybody's Gone at IMDB]

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