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James Stewart Parker (20 October 1941 - 2 November 1988) was a Northern Irish poet and playwright.
He was born in Sydenham, Belfast, of a Protestant working-class family. His birthplace is marked by an Ulster History Circle blue plaque. While still in his teens, he contracted bone cancer and had a leg amputated. He studied for an MA in Poetic Drama at Queen's University, Belfast, on a scholarship, before commencing teaching in the United States at Hamilton College and Cornell University.
Parker was a member of a group of young writers that included Seamus Heaney and Bernard MacLaverty in the early 1960s at Queen's University in Belfast. In British Poetry since 1945, Edward Lucie-Smith calls him "a rawer, rougher, more unformed poet than either of the other two Belfast poets presented here" (i.e. Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon). He notes that all three are post-Movement and neo-Georgian, owing little to William Butler Yeats and not much more to Patrick Kavanagh.
Following his return to Northern Ireland he worked as a freelance writer, contributing a column on pop music to The Irish Times. He later moved to Great Britain, where he wrote for radio, television and the stage. The musical landscape of Belfast is integral to his work as a playwright. One could arguably call him the Van Morrison of the Irish Theatre. He would be honoured by the title, as Van Morrison was one of his favourite artists.
Rough Magic present Stewart Parker's Northern Star at the Lyric from the 16 - 29 May. Tickets available at https://lyrictheatre.co.uk/event/northern-star/
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Big Stewart Parker performing Scottish folk music in the Golden Lion hotel Stirling
Big Stewart Parker sings Scottish folk Music at the Golden Lion hotel Stirling.
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Dr Marilynn Richtarik, a Professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta and biographer of Stewart Parker, reads from the late playwright's autobiographical novel Hopdance (Lilliput, 2017) at the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast. Marilynn is based in Northern Ireland this spring as a US Fulbright Scholar at Queen's University Belfast. In a great tradition of Irish autobiographical fiction that includes James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark, Stewart Parker’s poignant novel depicts events surrounding the amputation of his left leg when he was a 19-year-old university student. Masterful vignettes present the callow protagonist’s life before, during and after this ordeal. Tosh, Parker’s alter-ego, is drifting through life before his can...
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Big Stewart Parker sings Scottish folk Music at the Golden Lion hotel Stirling
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Big Stewart Parker sings Scottish folk music in the Golden Lion hotel Stirling