# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-mcguinness
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:32:54.615Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-mcguinness"
name: "Frank McGuinness"
slug: "frank-mcguinness"
description: "Professor Frank McGuinness is an Irish writer. As well as his own plays, which include The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and Dolly West's Kitchen, he is recognised for a \"strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the plays of Racine, Sophocles, Ibsen, Garcia Lorca, and Strindberg to critical acclaim\". He has also published six collections of poetry, and two novels. McGuinness was Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin (UCD) from 2007 to 2018."
tagline: "Irish writer (born 1953)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-07-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.365985333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0570128/"
    handle:    "nm0570128"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فرانك مكجوينيس"
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    title: "فرانک مک قینس"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McGuinness"
    title: "Frank McGuinness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McGuinness"
    title: "Frank McGuinness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانک مک‌گینس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frank McGuinness"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McGuinness"
    title: "Frank McGuinness"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43621"
    title: "Frank McGuinness"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump