Ciaran Creagh
Ciaran Creagh is an Irish writer from Dublin who writes for the theatre and film. He has had three plays publicly performed and his first film, PARKED, starring Colm Meaney and Colin Morgan.
Element Pictures Distribution released the film in Ireland and the UK in October 2011 and Olive Films will release the film in America in 2012.
Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets attractive music teacher Jules. Growing closer, these three outsiders are set on a course that will change their lives forever.
OFFICIAL SELECTION 2011 Brussels Film Festival, Belgium (Belgian Premiere) 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival 2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Dutch Premiere) 2011 Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden (Scandinavian Premiere) 2011 Irish Film Festival Boston, USA (American Premiere) 2011 Dallas International Film Festival, USA 2010 Torino Film Festival, Italy (World Premiere)
AWARDS Aer Lingus Best Feature Award - The Irish Film Festival Boston 2011 Target Narrative Feature - Honorable Mention - Dallas International Film Festival 2011
NOMINATIONS Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAS) 2011 - Best Actor in a Lead Role Film; Best Editing; Best Original Score; Best Make-Up and Hair.
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His three published plays are:
Last Call - "set in Dublin's Mountjoy Jail in the 1950s ... centres on Bertie Maguire, condemned to be hanged for the [...] of his wife, despite his protestations of innocence, and the wardens who mind him on his last night." The novel is based on the real-life execution of Michael Manning, the last person to be executed in the Republic of Ireland, which was witnessed by Creagh's father, Timothy, who was a prison guard minding Manning on his last night.
Blaggers - "follows a well-planned revenge attempt on the local tough guy made by three of his hard-done-by former friends who try to set him up for the robbery of a dole office".
Homefront - "Three Irish soldiers stuck in a trench in france in WW1 at Easter 1916 fighting for the British during the Easter rising in Dublin."