Maurice KennedyMaurice Kennedy was born in Youghal on December 30th 1924. He spent his early years in Kildavin, County Carlow, where his mother was the village schoolmistress and his school holidays were spent in the seaside town of his birth. Throughout his early ife as a civil servant in Dublin, he was also a successful freelance writer, his short stories being particularly well known and widely translated. Throughout the 'fifties and 'sixties he was a regular contributor as literary and drama critic to The Irish Times, The Irish Press and to literary periodicals of the time. In the mid 'fifties he edited and presented a programme called 'Plays of the Week' for RTE radio. Read More Read Less