Shane Connaughton

Writer

Shane Connaughton

Credits

Film

Production Company Notes
A GREAT HUNGER Universal
TRINITY HBO
THE LORD OF THE DANCE Dancelord Films Ltd
HALF A HUNDRED Interscope
THE MAGGIES Dreamworks
PLEADING GUILTY Brooklyn Films
KEEP TALKING

co-written with Kerry Lee Crabbe

DOLLAR BOTTOM
1981
Paramount Pictures

Directed by Roger Christian was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY
1985
Channel Four

Directed by James Scott starring Phylis Logan and Alex Norton

MY LEFT FOOT
1989
Palace Pictures

Directed by Jim Sheridan which starred Daniel Day-Lewis and was nominated for Best Screenplay, Academy Awards (1989)

THE PLAYBOYS
1992
Samuel Goldwyn Co

Written with Kerry Lee Crabbe directed by Gilles MacKinnon and starred Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn and Robin Wright

THE RUN OF THE COUNTRY
1994
Castle Rock Pictures

Directed by Peter Yates and starred Albert Finney

TARA ROAD
2005
Surefire Films

Directed by Gillies MacKinnon, starring Andie McDowell, Stephen Rea and Brenda Fricker

Television

Production Company Notes
ESCAPE : BANNED
1980
BBC2

A dramatisation of events surrounding the banning order used by the South African regime to silence Donald Woods;

MAYBURY
1981
BBC
MURDER IN EDEN
1991
BBC Northern Ireland

A three part adaptation of Patrick McGinley’s novel BOGMAIL starring Peter Firth and Alun Armstrong and winner of the Special Jury Award, Golden Gate Awards, 1992.

THE LILAC BUS
1992
Co-production between Little Bird and HTV,

Adaptation of Maeve Binchy’s novel starring Con O’Neil, Stephanie Beecham and Beatie Edney;

BORDERLINES
1993
BBC Northern Ireland
O MARY THIS LONDON
1993
BBC

Starring Jason Barry and Oba Seagrave

THE BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP
2004
Hallmark

Theatre

Production Company Notes
JENNY
1971
The Roundhouse
GEORGE DAVIS IS INNOCENT Half Moon Theatre
WESTERN COYNEY COWBOY
1975
Stoke on Trent
THE GOOD WOMAN OF WAPPING
1976
Half Moon Theatre
SIR IS WINNING
1977
Cottesloe, Royal National Theatre
FOREVER YOUNG
1979 – 1980
Dublin Theatre Festival Nottingham Playhouse
DIVISIONS
1981
Dublin Theatre Festival
LILY
1984
The Irish Company, Old Red Lion
I DO LIKE TO BE
1986
RNT Platform Performance/Soho Poly / Tricycle
HANG ALL THE HARPERS
1991
Dublin Theatre Festival
Shane Connaughton
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