Sam Thompson (writer)

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Samuel Thompson (1916-1965) was a Northern Irish playwright born and educated in Belfast. He started work aged 14 as a painter in Harland and Wolfe shipyards.

[edit] Works

Over the Bridge published in 1957, his first and most famous work, charts the course of a sectarian dispute in the shipyard. Its staging was delayed until January,1960 due to political controversy.

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