Thomas Kilroy is an award-winning playwright and novelist. He was presented with the Ulysses Medal this year and his play Pearse was performed in Dublin as part of the 1916 commemoration.
‘Like most wars, this was a war of the young.’ Thomas Kilroy on his parents’ experience of the Anglo-Irish War and the Irish civil war.
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