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Patrick McCabe (born 27 March 1955) is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for The Butcher Boy (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (1998), both of which have been made into films.
Patrick McCabe or Pat McCabe may refer to: Patrick E. McCabe (1860–1931), clerk of the New York State Senate; Patrick McCabe (Irish republican) (1916–1971), member of the Irish Republican Army; Patrick McCabe (novelist) (born 1955), Irish novelist; Pat McCabe (lacrosse) (born 1969), American lacrosse player; Pat McCabe (rugby union) (born ...
The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe. Set in a small town in Ireland in the early 1960s, it tells the story of Francis "Francie" Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses.
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Shortly after recording what was to be the band's final album, singer Sean Patrick McCabe was found dead in a motel room in Indiana in 2000, at age 27. The final and self-titled album was released on Buddyhead Records with a picture of a young Sean in a vampire costume featured in the CD booklet.
Patrick McCabe's accomplishment with The Butcher Boy was deemed unattainable in a film. [2] [3] During the screenwriting process, McCabe wrote two drafts that digressed from the original novel, like "planets within planets within planets" according to Jordan, consequently, Jordan wrote the third draft that was more faithful to the novel. [2]
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The Dead School is a 1995 novel by Irish writer Patrick McCabe. [1] Synopsis