Paul Vincent Carroll


Paul Vincent Carroll was an Irish dramatist and writer of movie scenarios and television scripts.
Carroll was born in Blackrock, County Louth, Ireland and trained as a teacher at St Patrick's College, Dublin and settled in Glasgow in 1921 as a teacher. Several of his plays were produced by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He co-founded, with Grace Ballantine and Molly Urquhart, the Curtain Theatre Company in Glasgow.

Personal life

Carroll and his wife, clothing designer Helena Reilly, had three daughters; the youngest was actress Helena Carroll.
Paul Vincent Carroll died at age 68 in Bromley, Kent England from undisclosed causes.
He was a close friend of Patrick Kavanagh's in the 1920s.

List of works