Born in Belfast’s Sandy Row, he was very proud of his Ulster roots but also proud to be Irish
The “shipyard poet” is how Thomas Carnduff was known. The Belfast-born working-class poet and playwright wrote about the lives of ordinary people as he witnessed them. Born in Sandy Row, he was very proud of his Ulster roots but also proud to be Irish.
Lamenting the fact that plays written about the working classes in a big city had not been written by the workers themselves, he felt that “as a worker”, he could do them justice with his attempt to “dramatise the lives of that class”.The Times they are a-name-checking – Frank McNally on songs about newspapers
Machinery, billed as a “Belfast Factory Play in Four Acts”, was his next play to feature at the national theatre. Centred on workers in a weaving factory, some scenes were set in a chip shop on the Shankill Road. It was performed for the first time on any stage by the Belfast Repertory Company at the Abbey in March 1933.
It took its title from Lord Castlereagh who was acting chief secretary for Ireland when the Rebellion of 1798 broke out. His role in putting down the popular insurrection earned him the nickname of “Bloody Castlereagh”. The Dublin-born politician later helped smooth the way for the Act of Union in 1800.
One of his main contributions to the arts in his native city was founding the Young Ulster Society. A non-sectarian non-political organisation, it has been dubbed “one of the most active of the pre-war literary groups in the North”. He was president from its inception in 1936 until his death in 1956 at age 70.
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