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Wilson John Haire

WILSON JOHN HAIRE

  (1932 - )
Nationality:    Irish
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Born Belfast 1932. educated Clontonacally Public elementary School, County Down 1938 - 1946. apprentice Woodworker Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast 1946 - 1953. Building site carpenter - on and off - London 1954 - 1997. Short stories printed in Irish Democrat, London 1960 - 1961. Co-Producer Camden Group Theatre, London 1968 - 1969. Resident Dramatist, Royal Court Theatre , London 1974. Resident Dramatist Lyric Theatre, Belfast 1976. Collection of short stories published by Brandon, Republic of Ireland 2002. the George Devine award for Drama 1972. Most Promising Playwright award evening Standard 1973. the Leverhulme award for Writing in Theatre 1976. Thames Television award for Theatre Writing 1977.Various Arts Council of Great Britain awards and the Arts Council of Northern award for Drama. Member Society of authors.

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below is a list of Wilson John Haire's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bloom Of the Diamond Stone         Clockin' Hen, The         Dandelion Clock, The         Diamond, Bone And Hammer And Along the Shoughs Of Ulster, The         Divil Era         Echoes From A Concrete Canyon         Letter From A Soldier         Lost Worlds         Newsflash         Roost         Wedding Breakfast         Within Two Shadows
Bloom Of the Diamond Stone

Bloom Of the Diamond Stone
Boy/girl relationship in Belfast factory runs into difficulties due to their different backgrounds.

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Pluto Press, London (ISBN 0435 233637), 1979   

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Clockin' Hen, The

Synopsis:
a demonstration against a Ian Paisley march through a Belfast Catholic area in 1962 causes a riot which results in a court case. the Clockin' Hen in the title is the broody hen which is about to hatch out the egg that results in the Troubles

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Camden Theatre Group, London

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Dandelion Clock, The

Synopsis:
Young girl from an east Belfast Protestant ghetto does a runner from school for a day, wanders the city, during its violenr period, and encounters Catholic girls of her own age, for the first time. Missing, she causes anxiety for her family who begin a search for her

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BBC1 Television Play for Today, 15 May, 1975

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Bbc1     1975

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Diamond, Bone And Hammer And Along the Shoughs Of Ulster, The

Synopsis:
Influenced by Brecht's Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, it shows in 7 scenes life in Northern Ireland for the average Catholic during the old Stormont Regime during the 1950s and early 1960s

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produced At Unity theatre, London on the 8th of August, 1969

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Divil Era

Synopsis:
Two brothers in the B-Specials (auxiliary police in N.Ireland, disbanded in 1972) guard a road bridge. Without very much to do they pick on their father's farm labourer when he approaches drunkenly (after a night out) and verbally torment him.

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Camden Theatre Group, London

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Echoes From A Concrete Canyon

Synopsis:
a woman in a high-rise block in London slowly disintegrates when her husband leaves her and she meets up with a slightly deranged lover. the woman's teenage daughter also gives her hell in the process of growing up

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Letter From A Soldier

Synopsis:
a soldier returns from duty in N.Ireland and suffers delayed trauma from his experience there which causes problems for his mother and younger brother

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BBC2 Television, in the Centre Play series March 1975

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Lost Worlds

Synopsis:
Depicting individual lives destroyed by the wars of the 20th Century

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Newsflash, Wedding Breakfast, Roost

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in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London, 1978   

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Three Short Plays One act

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Newsflash

Synopsis:
an elderly bedridden Protestant mother and her 3 middle-aged daughters are caught up in a firefight between the British army and the IRa along the Northern Ireland border with eire. a mortar round comes through their roof killing them just as they have fatalistically climbed on to their mother's bed to make a last journey

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part of Lost Worlds

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in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London, 1978   

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Roost

Synopsis:
a young Cambodian girl has been taken out of her country by a charity organisation and taken to London. as she grows older she wonders about her past life and begins to watch the skies for planes. Slowly her past life comes back to her and that ends in the murder of her foster-parents

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part of Lost Worlds

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in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London, 1978   

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Wedding Breakfast

Synopsis:
a young IRa man has just married but he and his bride flee to a derelict house to have their wedding breakfast, aided by a neighbour while the British army are slowly sledgehammering their way through the walls of the derelict houses further along the street. Soon they will be hammering through their walls.

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part of Lost Worlds. Yvonne Arnaud theatre, Guildford, Surrey , 1981

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in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London, 1978   

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Within Two Shadows

Synopsis:
a family divided along political/religious lines in Ulster

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Winner George Devine Award & evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award. Also published by New York Shakespeare Festival Public theater, Volume 1, Number 9, September, 1972. Also been produced At the Lyric theatre, Belfast, September, 1972 And At

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Davis Poynter, London & Plays and Player, June, 1972, 1972   

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