Auteur: Padraig Standun

Pádraig Standún was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo in 1946. He is a well-known writer, activist and priest, best known for his novels but many of his plays have also been produced. Stigmata was produced by Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe in 1996, and others have been staged on the amateur circuit in Belfast and London. The film maker Bob Quinn based his film Budawanny (1987) on Standún »s first novel, the controversial Súil le Breith. Standún has spent time as a priest in Carraroe, Connemara and on the Aran Islands, (Inis Meáin and Inis Oírr). He spent fifteen years as a curate in Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo before moving in July of last year to the Carna parish in Connemara.