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  Marion McKeone, The Sunday Business Post

  PATRICK MCCABE was born in Clones, Country Monaghan, Ireland in 1955. He has published a children’s story, The Adventures of Shay Mouse (1985), and several adult novels, including The Butcher Boy (1992), which was the winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize and shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, and The Dead School (1995). His play, Frank Pig Says Hello, based on The Butcher Boy, was first performed at the Dublin Festival in 1992, and he co-wrote the screenplay for Neil Jordan’s highly acclaimed film of the book (The Butcher Boy, released in 1998). He was closely involved with the filming of Breakfast on Pluto. McCabe lives in Sligo with his wife and two daughters.

  ALSO BY PATRICK MCCABE

  FICTION

  Music on Clinton Street

  Carn

  The Dead School

  Breakfast on Pluto

  Mondo Desperado

  Emerald Germs of Ireland

  Emerald Germs of Ireland

  Call Me the Breeze

  PLAYS

  Frank Pig Says Hello

  (based on The Butcher Boy)

  The Dead School

  Loco County Lonesome

  CHILDREN’S STORIES

  The Adventures of Shay Mouse

  First published 1998 by Picador

  First published in paperback 1999 by Picador

  This edition published 2006 by Picador

  This electronic edition published 2012 by Picador

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  Copyright © Patrick McCabe 1998

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