{"id":346759,"date":"2026-03-15T01:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346759\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:12:13","slug":"kerry-man-mentored-by-john-b-keane-is-honoured-his-play-will-run-in-hometown-its-just-thrilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346759\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry man mentored by John B Keane is honoured his play will run in hometown \u2013 It&#8217;s just thrilling\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Christian O\u2019Reilly\u2019s youth in Listowel inspired him to establish a career in writing  \u2013 \u2018There&#8217;s a real sense that it&#8217;s OK to want to be a writer\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Listowel playwright Christian O'Reilly. Photo by Anita Murphy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54e99167-a1d1-44bc-bd11-c1c2ed75d38e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Listowel playwright Christian O&#8217;Reilly. Photo by Anita Murphy<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Listowel writer who was mentored by John B Keane said \u2018it means a tremendous amount\u2019 to him that one of his plays will run locally later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Christian O\u2019Reilly, who has carved out a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter, spent much of his youth living with family at Mount Rivers house, owned by his grandmother, just outside Listowel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian O\u2019Reilly\u2019s youth in Listowel inspired him to establish a career in writing \u2013 \u2018There&#8217;s a real sense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,3332],"class_list":{"0":"post-346759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-jack-joy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}