Paul Vincent Carroll

Paul Vincent Carroll (10 July 1900 – 20 October 1968) was an Irish dramatist and writer of movie scenarios and television scripts.

Paul Vincent Carroll (1944)
Photo by Carl Van Vechten

Carroll was born in Blackrock, County Louth, Ireland[1] and trained as a teacher at St Patrick's College, Dublin and settled in Glasgow in 1921 as a teacher. Several of his plays were produced by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.[2] He co-founded, with Grace Ballantine and Molly Urquhart, the Curtain Theatre Company in Glasgow.[3]

Personal life

Carroll and his wife, clothing designer Helena Reilly, had three daughters; the youngest was actress Helena Carroll (1928–2013). He also had a son, Brian Francis, born in 1945.

Paul Vincent Carroll died at age 68 in Bromley, Kent England..He died in his sleep from heart failure.

He was a close friend of Patrick Kavanagh's in the 1920s.

List of works
  • The Watched Pot (unpublished)
  • The Things That are Caesar's (London, 1934)
  • Shadow and Substance (1937, won the Casement Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award)
  • The White Steed (1939, won Drama Critics’ Circle Award)
  • The Strings Are False (1942, published as The Strings My Lord Are False, 1944)
  • Coggerers (1944, later renamed The Conspirators)
  • The Old Foolishness (1944)
  • The Wise Have Not Spoken (1947)
  • Saints and Sinners 1949
  • She Went by Gently (1953, *Irish Writing* magazine. Republished in 1955 in 44 Irish Short Stories edited by Devin A. Garrity)

References
  1. Irish Playography
  2. Profile at Ricorso
  3. Murdoch, Travelling Hopefully: The Story of Molly Urquhart, Edinburgh, 1981.
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