Eugene McCabe (7 July 1930 – 27 August 2020) was a Scottish-born Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television screenwriter.
[2] Born to Irish emigrants in Glasgow, Scotland, he moved with his family to Ireland in the early 1940s.
[5] His play King of the Castle caused a minor scandal when first staged in 1964, and was protested by the League of Decency.
[3] McCabe wrote his award-winning trilogy of television plays, consisting of Cancer, Heritage and Siege, because he felt he had to make a statement about the Troubles.
[7][8] Fintan O'Toole noted how living in Monaghan, just across the border from Fermanagh, informed McCabe's writing, and described him as "the great laureate of...indeterminacy, charting its inevitably tragic outcomes while holding somehow to the notion that it might someday become a blessing.