Frank Carney (playwright)

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Frank Carney (1902–1978) was an Irish playwright from Westport, County Mayo. He studied in Tuam and at Galway University, then worked for many years as a civil servant in the Old Age Pensions Department, which gave him a close view of rural Irish life. He worked with Dublin's Abbey Theatre from 1936 to 1938, and several of his plays were staged there, including They Went By Bus (1939), Peeping Tom (1940), and The Righteous are Bold (1946). Carney also acted in many Abbey productions and was stage manager at the Peacock Theatre in 1936. He appeared as Father Ryan in Teresa Deevy’s The Wild Goose, which had six performances.