The Au Pair Man | A Critical Analysis of Hugh Leonard’s Work
In the following essay, Kosok gives a critical analysis of Hugh Leonard’s work.
Hugh Leonard was born in Dublin. As he records in his autobiographical volume, Home Before Night (1979), his name was originally John Byrne, but he was adopted soon after his birth and later on called himself John Keyes Byrne, using the name of his adoptive father as his middle name. He grew up in the vicinity of Dublin, won a scholarship in 1941 to Presentation College Glasthule, and in 1945 joined the Irish civil service. Home Before Night is a moving account of his early life in a working-class family that, despite his adoptive parents’ conflicting characters, provided...
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