Felicity McCall is an Irish journalist, writer and broadcaster who began her career with two decades working for the

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

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 ...

, the Irish nursing pioneer who was inspired by Florence Nightingale and reformed the Liverpool workhouses. Her plays have been professionally produced in the UK, Ireland, the US, 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

Tyrone Guthrie Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 – 15 May 1971) was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at ...

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

, 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 served on the Irish Executive of the

National Union of Journalists The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is a trade union supporting journalists in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The NUJ was founded in 1907 and has 20,693 members. It is a member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Trades ...

References

External links

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Guildhall Press website
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