Frank Carney (playwright)

Frank Carney, born 1902, was an Irish playwright.

Born in Westport,Co. Mayo educated at schools in Tuam and later at Galway University. A civil servant for a number of years in the Old Age Pensions Department, which gave him an opportunity of observing Irish rural life at close quarters. A number of his plays were staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Plays

• Bolt from the Blue, a comedy in three acts. Adapted from the novel Friday's Well
• They went by the Bus, 1939.
• Peeping Tom, 1940.
• The Righteous are Bold, 1946.