. . "Hugh Leonard"@en . . "2009-02-12Z"^^ . . . "1926Z"^^ . "2009Z"^^ . . . . "John Keyes Byrne"@en . "1926-11-09Z"^^ . "Irish writer" . . . "Leonard, Hugh"@en . . . "Hugh Leonard (9 November 1926 \u2013 12 February 2009) was an Irish dramatist, television writer and essayist. In a career that spanned 50 years, Leonard wrote nearly 30 full-length plays, 10 one-act plays, three volumes of essays, two autobiographies, three novels and numerous screenplays and teleplays, as well as writing a regular newspaper column."@en .