Felicity McCall is an

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journalist, writer and broadcaster who began her career with two decades working for the BBC in Northern Ireland. She has over twenty published works include novels, non-fiction, plays, and anthologies.

Life

McCall worked for the BBC for twenty years and in around 2000 she settled down to being a full-time writer. In 2006 she published a biography of

Agnes Jones Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832 – 1868) of Fahan, County Donegal, Ireland became the first trained Nursing Superintendent of Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary. She gave all her time and energy to her patients and died at the age of 35 from typhus ...

who was one of the nurses working with

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in the Crimea. Her plays have been professionally produced in the UK,

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, the USA, and

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; her awards include the UK National Lottery Award for Heritage 2011 for ''We Were Brothers''; two Epic Ireland awards in 2013 for ''Every Bottle has a Story to Tell''; two Meyer Whitworth nominations, for ''No Goodbyes'' (2008) and ''We Were Brothers'' (2010); and the

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Scriptwriting Award (2006–07). Much of her work is based on historical fact or social activism. Her screenplay credits include ''Agnes'' (Ambient Light/GSCA 2006), based on the life of the Irish nursing pioneer Agnes Jones, and ''Jam'' (Brassneck Productions). McCall is also a director and founding member of theatre groups Handful Productions and Postscript, and co-founded the Derry Writers' Group. She serves on the Irish Executive of the

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References

Guildhall Press website

External links

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