John Byrne

Born: 1940

Biography:

John Patrick Byrne (born 6 January 1940) is a Scottish playwright and artist. Perhaps best known for writing The Slab Boys Trilogy of plays about working-class life in Scotland, he has been described as Paisley's first postmodernist. John Byrne was born into a family of Irish Catholic descent in Paisley, Renfrewshire, where he grew up in the Fergus...