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Association with what was known as "the Tomelty clique" - actors, painters and writers, including the young Brian Moore, who gathered at Campbell's cafe in the city centre - was a liability in...
Sep 18, 2010 · Joseph Tomelty was one of the most important cultural and artistic figures in Northern Ireland since the Second World War; and the first significant literary artist from the northern Catholic community after partition – a status he enjoyed with caution and with a generous skill by which he laid a template for poets and writers from that population.
Joseph Tomelty (5 March 1911 – 7 June 1995) [1] was an Irish actor, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and theatre manager. He worked in film, television, radio and on the stage, [2] starring in Sam Thompson 's 1960 play Over the Bridge. Life and career.
Jun 5, 2020 · Tomelty’s most consistently creative and varied period began in 1949, with the first series of The McCooeys, his powerful and profound play All Souls’ Night – which remains a high-watermark ...
Apr 18, 2015 · In 1940, Tomelty was one of the founders of the Group Theatre, where he became general manager from 1942 until 1951. He wrote eleven stage plays, rich in vernacular language and metaphor, of which his masterpiece All Souls’ Night (1948) is the most often revived.
Tomelty, Joseph (1911–95), actor and playwright, was born 12 March 1911 in Portaferry, Co. Down, son of James Tomelty, house painter and keen traditional musician, and Mary Tomelty (née Drumgoole).
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Frances Tomelty (born 6 October 1948) is a Northern Irish actress whose numerous television credits include Strangers (1978–1979), Testament of Youth (1979), Inspector Morse (1988), Cracker (1993), The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006), The White Queen (2013) and Unforgotten (2015).
