Frank McGuinness

Quick Facts

Full Name	Frank McGuinness
Occupation	Playwright
Date Of Birth	Jul 29, 1953(1953-07-29)
Age	71
Birthplace	Buncrana
Country	Ireland
Birth City	County Donegal
Horoscope	Leo

Frank McGuinness Biography

Frank McGuinness is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on July 29, 1953 in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland.

McGuinness’ first full-length play, The Factory Girls, also premiered in 1982, and dealt with a group of female workers facing redundancy from a small town in Donegal. McGuinness explained that he was inspired by “the women in my family”. A critic has highlighted its “Wednesday to Sunday time frame”, in a link to Catholic imagery which, surprisingly given its theme, indicates that this is in fact “a passion play”. “When I wrote ‘The Factory Girls’,” McGuiness has explained, “I desperately wanted to bring across the audience a sense that I came from a sophisticated background, [because] I come from a background where language is very dangerous, where language is very layered.”

Frank McGuinness has explained that: “My earliest writing was … song writing. I would have loved to have been … Paul McCartney … Joni Mitchell.” Desiring to write something “substantial”, however, he “tossed a coin” between a play and a novel, and decided to write a play. The Glass God, a one-act play written by McGuinness for the company Platform Group Theatre, was premiered at the Lourdes Hall Theatre in Dublin in 1982. It was one of three one-act plays presented under the collective title of Shrapnel.

Frank McGuinness Net Worth

Frank McGuinness is one of the richest Playwright from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Frank McGuinness 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Professor Frank McGuinness (born 1953) is an Irish writer. As well as his own plays, which include The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me and Dolly West’s Kitchen, he is recognised for a “strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the plays of Racine, Sophocles, Ibsen, Garcia Lorca, and Strindberg to critical acclaim”. He has also published four collections of poetry, and two novels. McGuinness has been Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin (UCD) since 2007.

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McGuinness’s first poetry anthology, Booterstown, was published in 1994. Several of his poems have been recorded by Marianne Faithfull, including Electra, After the Ceasefire and The Wedding.

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Gage Ranked on the list of most popular Playwright. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Frank McGuinness celebrates birthday on July 29 of every year.

The play Gates of Gold, premiered in 2002, was commissioned by The Gate Theatre in Dublin to celebrate its anniversary. The theatre was founded by Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards, who were lifelong partners in life and work, and the play is about them. McGuinness, who is himself gay and whose plays often contain gay relationships or explore more traditional family drama from an outsider perspective, has explained that he “wanted to write a play that was a great celebration of homosexual marriage, love, partnership”. The playwright has a drawing of MacLiammoir, by Norah McGuinness, in his sitting room, a work “which I bought with the royalties of the Factory Girls”, so the actor is literally a constant presence in McGuinness’ life. Gates of Gold looks at the dying days of MacLiammoir, because McGuinness wanted to write “something darker and stranger”, and less predictable, about these two pioneers of theatre.