Billy Roche
Billy Roche is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Wexford, he worked as an actor and a singer before turning to writing in the 1980s.
His plays include the acclaimed Wexford Trilogy, comprising A Handful of Stars (1988), Poor Beast in the Rain (1989) and Belfry (1990), which won him numerous awards in both Ireland and Britain. Other plays include: Amphibians (1992), The Cavalcaders (1993), On Such As We (2001) and Lay Me Down Softly (2008).
His prose works include the novel...
