[1] Thomas F. Kilroy was born in Green Street, Callan, County Kilkenny.
[citation needed] In his early career he was play editor at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
In 1978, Kilroy was appointed Professor of English at University College Galway,[3] a post from which he resigned in 1989 to concentrate on writing.
Kilroy lived in County Mayo and was a member of the Irish Academy of Letters, the Royal Society of Literature, and Aosdána.
The Thomas Kilroy Collection, his archive, was deposited at Galway University's James Hardiman Library; Kilroy addressed the launch event in March 2011, which was attended by, amongst others, Brian Friel and the future President of Ireland Michael D.