Over the next five years, he wrote a series of plays including We Want Work, We Want Bread (1977), They’re Taking The Barricades Down, What About Your Ma is Your Da Still Workin’?, and A Roof Under Our Heads.
[4] In 1983, along with Marie Jones he wrote 'Lay Up Your Ends' for Charabanc Theatre Co., based on the Belfast Mills girls strike of 1911.
In 1987 he wrote the screenplay for the Sam Goldwyn Hollywood movie 'A Prayer For The Dying' starring Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins and Liam Neeson (acting in his first feature film).
In 1994 Lynch drew up a paper proposing a cultural & arts quarter for the Donegall St area of Belfast city centre north and presented it to the Department of Environment.
IN 2003, along with Conor Grimes & Alan McKee, Lynch wrote what is generally acclaimed as the most successful play of modern times in N Ireland, 'The History Of The Troubles (accordin' to my Da).