Shane Connaughton
Writer
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
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 |
PUBLICATIONS
Shane won the Henessy Literary Award in 1985 for a short story. This story subsequently became his first novel, A BORDER STATION and was published by Hamish Hamilton in 1989. It was shortlisted for the GPA Award, 1989. This novel was also published in paperback by Abacus.
His second novel, A RUN OF THE COUNTRY was also published by Hamish Hamilton in 1991 and appeared in a Penguin paperback in 1992.
His diary of the filming of THE RUN OF THE COUNTRY was published in 1995 by Faber and Faber under the title A BORDER DIARY.