![]() ![]() He moved to Manchester for a while, working for Granada Television before returning to Ireland in 1970. ![]() After that his plays were produced regularly by Dublin's theatres. His first play to be professionally produced was The Big Birthday, which was mounted by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1956, his career with the Abbey Theatre continued until 1994. During that time he both acted in and wrote plays for community theatre groups. He worked as a civil servant, for 14 years. Leonard was educated at the Harold Boys' National School, Dalkey, and Presentation College, Glasthule, winning a scholarship to the latter. For the rest of his life, despite the pen name of "Hugh Leonard" which he later adopted and became well known by, he invited close friends to call him "Jack". Raised in Dalkey, a suburb of Dublin, by Nicholas and Margaret Keyes, he changed his name to John Keyes Byrne. Leonard was born in Dublin John Joseph Byrne, but was put up for adoption. ![]()
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