Eamonn Patrick Keane (born Edmund Keane; 30 March 1925 – 7 January 1990) was an Irish actor.
Keane was born in
Listowel
Listowel ( ; , IPA: ˆlʲɪsË ËˆtÌªË uÉ™hÉ™lʲ is a heritage market town in County Kerry, Ireland. It is on the River Feale, from the county town, Tralee. The town of Listowel had a population of 4,820 according to the Central Statistics Of ...
,
County Kerry
County Kerry ( gle, Contae ChiarraÃ) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and forms part of the province of Munster. It is named after the Ciarraige who lived in part of the present county. The population of the co ...
and was a brother of the playwright,
John B. Keane. He was a member of the
Radio Éireann Players
The Radio Éireann Players (RÉP) were a repertory company for radio in Ireland, formed in 1947, which performed in regular drama productions for Irish broadcaster, Radio Éireann. After the depredations of the war-time years and a devastating fir ...
and appeared in many of the station's drama productions on both radio and television.
[''The Irish Times'', "Death of Eamon Keane, aged 64", 8 January 1990] In 1966, he won a
Jacob's Award
The Jacob's Awards were instituted in December 1962 as the first Irish television awards. Later, they were expanded to include radio. The awards were named after their sponsor, W. & R. Jacob & Co. Ltd., a biscuit manufacturer, and recipients ...
for his performance in
RTÉ
(RTÉ) (; Irish language, Irish for "Radio & Television of Ireland") is the Public broadcaster, national broadcaster of Republic of Ireland, Ireland headquartered in Dublin. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on RTÉ Television, telev ...
Television's production, ''When do you die – Friend?'' He won a second Jacob's Award in 1972, this time for his contribution to radio drama. He was part of yet another Jacob's Award-winning production in 1982, as a member of the
RTÉ Players, when he played
Simon Dedalus
This is a list of characters from '' Ulysses'' by James Joyce.
Principal characters
* Leopold Bloom is a protagonist and hero in Joyce's '' Ulysses''. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and i ...
in
RTÉ Radio
RTÉ Radio is a division of the Irish national broadcasting organisation Raidió TeilifÃs Éireann. RTÉ Radio broadcasts four analogue channels and five digital channels nationwide.
Founded in January 1926 as 2RN, the first broadcaster in t ...
's
unabridged, 30-hour, marathon broadcast of
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
's novel,
''Ulysses''.
He played the part of Dan Paddy Andy in the 1990, film adaptation of his brother's play ''
The Field''.
He had appeared in the play's world première at
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...
's
Olympia Theatre in 1965, on that occasion taking the role of 'The Bull' McCabe's sidekick, 'The Bird' O'Donnell.
Keane died at
Tralee
Tralee ( ; ga, Trá LÃ, ; formerly , meaning 'strand of the Lee River') is the county town of County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland. The town is on the northern side of the neck of the Dingle Peninsula, and is the largest town in County ...
General Hospital aged 64. He was married to Maura Hassett from whom he separated in 1970. They had three children, Fergal, Eamon, and Niamh. The eldest,
Fergal Keane
Fergal Patrick Keane (born 6 January 1961) is an Irish foreign correspondent with BBC News, and an author. For some time, Keane was the BBC's correspondent in South Africa. He is a nephew of the Irish playwright, novelist and essayist John B. ...
, is a well-known journalist and broadcaster.
[''The Irish Times'', "A journalist with his own story to tell", 4 January 1997]
See also
*
Eamonn Keane (weightlifter)
Eamonn Keane is an Irish primary school teacher from Louisburgh, County Mayo who specialises in endurance weightlifting.
Media coverage
His bench press record is mentioned in the 2005 edition of ''Guinness World Records''. and later mentioned i ...
References
External links
Eamon Keane at Irish Playography(se
archive
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1925 births
1990 deaths
Irish male film actors
Irish male radio actors
Irish male stage actors
Irish male television actors
Jacob's Award winners
People from Listowel
20th-century Irish male actors
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