Patricia Boylan (12 March 1913 â€" 23 February 2006) was an Irish
actor and journalist.Patricia Boylan was born Patricia Clancy in
Coalisland, County Tyrone on 12 March 1913. Her parents were Patrick,
a general and wholesale draper and Justice of the Peace, and Anne
Clancy (née Treanor). She was the 10th child of 12 children, four
girls and eight boys. The family moved to Dungannon, and then Belfast,
where Boylan attended St Patrick's Girls' Academy. Enjoying studying
English, and developing an interest in acting, she doorstepped Arthur
Shields during his visit to Belfast pretending to be a journalist. She
wrote up the meeting, and it was published in The Irish News. Boylan
attended the Municipal Technical College, learning typing and
shorthand. She trained as a nurse at Leeds General Infirmary from 1932
to 1936, graduating from the Royal College of Nursing, London. She
moved with her parents to Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra, Dublin in 1937
and she successfully auditioned for the Abbey Theatre's School of
Acting.There she studied alongside Wilfred Brambell, Valentine
Iremonger, Phyllis Ryan, Dan O'Herlihy, and briefly, Maureen
O'Hara.Boylan wrote up a profile of Lennox Robinson, the director of
the School, for The Irish Press (30 September 1937). These occasional
writing jobs helped to pay her school fees. Robinson chose her as part
of a group to create a verse-speaking class, and Boylan appeared as
Deirdre in the radio play Deirdre of the sorrows by J. M. Synge on
Radio Éireann. She was one of the original members and honorary
secretary of the Dublin Verse-Speaking Society, founded in December
1939 by Austin Clarke and Robert Farren. Boylan gave poetry recitals
at the Abbey and Peacock theatres, as well as appearing on the Monday
night poetry show, Poetry Anthology, on Radio Éireann for 25 years.
She met Henry Boylan in Radio Éireann in 1941, and they married on 18
September 1941 in Dublin. They had two daughters, Anna and Catherine,
and two sons, Hugo and Peter. Patricia Boylan Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter